Supreme Court · 1954 INSC 31 · Decided 18 March 1954
Ratilal Panachand Gandhi v. The State of Bombay and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1954 INSC 31 · [1954] 1 S.C.R. 1055
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1/1954
- Decided
- 18 March 1954
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, SUDHI RANJAN DAS, VIVIAN BOSE, GHULAM HASAN (5-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 25, 26, 58, 132(1)
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 1055 institutions are properly administered and their income is duly appropriated for purposes for which they were founded or exist. As there is no question of favouring any particular religion or religious denomination, article 27 could not possibly apply. The result is extent that a writ in the nature of mandamus would issue restrain­ ing the Commissioner and the State Government enforcing against the petitioners the prov!Slons of the sections mentioned above. The other prayers of the petlt10ners are disallowed. No separate order is necessary in Case No. 1
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