Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 447 · Decided 6 September 2021
The State of Madhya Pradesh & ORS. v. Pujari Utthan Avam Kalyan Samiti & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 447 · [2021] 7 S.C.R. 685
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4850/2021
- Decided
- 6 September 2021
- Bench
- HEMANT GUPTA, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Revenue Code
Headnote
MADHYA PRADESH & ORS. v. PUJARI UTTHAN AVAM KALYAN SAMITI & ANR. (Civil Appeal No. 4850 of 2021) SEPTEMBER 06, 2021 [HEMANT GUPTA AND A. S. BOPANNA JJ.] M.P. Land Revenue Code, 1959 - Rights of Pujari - A writ petition filed by Association of Priests registered under the M.P. The Single Judge of the High Court allowed the writ petition - However, in the intra- court appeal, it was held that if the temple was managed by the Pujari, then keeping in view the law laid down from time to time, his name was required to be mentioned as Pujari along with the name of the
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