Supreme Court · 1952 INSC 30 · Decided 9 May 1952
Nar Hari Sastri and Others v. Shri Badrinath Temple Committee
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1952 INSC 30 · [1952] 1 S.C.R. 849
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 105/1951
- Decided
- 9 May 1952
- Bench
- BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, SUDHI RANJAN DAS, SIR SYED FAZL ALI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS NAR HARi SASTRI AND OTHERS v. SHRI BADRINATH TEMPLE COMMITTEE. [SAIYAD FAZL ALI J., MuKHERJEA and DAs JJ.] 849 Hindu law-Religious Endowments-Right to worship-Right of Pandas to accompany worshippers to temple-Bye-law of temple committee to prohibit taking of gifts within sive right depending for its existence on the arbitrary dis- cretion of the temple authorities; it is a legal right in the true sense of the expression, but it can be exercised only subject to the restrictions which the temple committee may impose in good faith for maintenance of order and
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)