Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 1238 · Decided 15 December 2017
Vijendra Kumar & ORS. v. The Commissioner, A.P. Charitable & Religious Institutions & Endowment Department & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 1238 · [2017] 12 S.C.R. 246
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6460/2008
- Decided
- 15 December 2017
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 114(e)
Headnote
Andhra Pradesh Hindu Charitable and Religious lllStitutiollS and Endowment Act, 1966 - ss. 92, 78, 77 - Nature of a temple - Public endowment or private property - Appellant seeking a declaration that temple is their private place of worship and shrine - Department's case that in the Books of Endowment, father of the appellants was registered as endower of Wakf(temple) - Appellant's case that temple had never been dedicated or endowed to the public by their father - Trial court decreed the appellant's D suit - However, the Single Judge
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