Supreme Court · 1967 INSC 42 · Decided 24 February 1967
Mahant Harnam Singh, Chela of Bhai Narain Singh v. Gurdial Singh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1967 INSC 42 · [1967] 2 S.C.R. 739
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1377/1966
- Decided
- 24 February 1967
- Bench
- K.N. WANCHOO, R.S. BACHAWAT, VISHISHTHA BHARGAVA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 92
Headnote
Code of Civil Procedure (Act 5 of 1908), s. 92-"Persons hal'ing interest in the trusf', meaning of. The appellant was the Mahant of a Gurdwara which was maintained for a sect known as Nirmala Sadhus and was registered as one of the branches of the principal institution of Nirmala Sadhus. All were Nirmala Sadhus. The institution owned land, which was donated to it by the inferior owners of the· village. It also ran a free kitchen for providing food for visitors. The respondents, who were Sikhs, .filed a suit un&!:r s. 92, Civil Procedure Code, for the removal of the
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