Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 229 · Decided 6 November 1979
Mahant Parichchan Das v. The Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 229 · [1980] 1 S.C.R. 1125
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2582/1969
- Decided
- 6 November 1979
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Bihar Hindu Religious Trusts Act, 1951 (1 of 1951)-Trust of a public '()T private nature-TeSts. The appellant (plaintiff) the present Mahan!, filed a suit for a declaration A , that the ple .. int-schedule- properties were his personal properties1 and that there was no trust of a religious or Bihar Hindu Religious Trust Act 1951. It was contended in the suit that C one G constructed a temple on his own land in the village, installed deities~ performed puja and raj-bhog till his death, that the public had no concern with tho idols and that after his death he was succeeded by his son who
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