Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 487 · Decided 7 July 2015
Riju Prasad Sarma ETC. ETC. v. State of Assam & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 487 · [2015] 11 S.C.R. 599
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3276/2013
- Decided
- 7 July 2015
- Bench
- F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA, SHIVA KIRTI SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 92; Constitution
Headnote
Trust and Charities: Assam State Acquisition of Lands Belonging to Religious or Charitable Institutions of Public Nature Act, 1959: A B c s. 25A - Scope of - Public religious endownment relating to Maa Kamakhya Temple - Custom pertaining to a D temple where women barred from temple priest - Challenge to - Single Judge upheld the vires of s. 25A - Division Bench held thats. 25A has very limited scope; and on the basis of the purported customary practices, the electorate for the election to the post of Doloi (Head Priest) E should be confined only to the male
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