Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 108 · Decided 27 November 1957
Sardar Syedna Taher Saifuddin Saheb v. The State of Bombay
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 108 · [1958] 1 S.C.R. 1010
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 99/1954
- Decided
- 27 November 1957
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, VIVIAN BOSE, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR, S.K. DAS, A.K. SARKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 132, 133, 25, 26
Headnote
27. 1010 SUPREME COURT REPORTS SARDAR SYEDNA TAHER SAIFUDDIN SAHEB v. THE STATE OF BOMBAY [1958) (S. R. DAS c. J., VENKATARAMA AIYAR, S. K. DAS, A. K. SARKAR and VIVIAN BosE JJ.) Practice-Appeal-1\fointainabi!ity-Suit based on per­ sonal right-Death of plaintiff pending appeal-Bombay 133. The appellant as the religious head of his community -ex-communicated T who thereupon filed a suit for a dec­ laration that the order of excommunication was invalid. When the suit was pending the Bombay Prevention of Ex­ eommunication Act, 1949, was passed and one · of
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