Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | 77 78 Andhra Pradesh Hindu Charitable and Religious lllStitutiollS and Endowment Act 1966 - ss. 92 |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Andhra Pradesh Hindu Charitable and Religious constitutionals and Endowment Act, 1966 - ss. 92, 78, 77 - Nature of a temple - Public endowment or private property - Appellant seeking a c declaration that temple is their private place of worship and not a public shrine - Department's case that in the Books of Endowment, father of the appellants was registered as endowed 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 suit - However, the Single Judge and the Division Bench of the High Court held that the temple was a public temple - On appeal, held: Entry in the Register of Endowments shows that the father of the appellants had endowed tlze suit temple for wakf and the document was published in the official gazette - Rebuttable presumption of validity of official acts can be permissibly drawn in E terms of s. 114(e) - Insistent stand of the appellants is that such endowment had never been made by their father and that no notice with regard thereto had ever been received by them - Also this could be the handiwork of some mischievous neighbours and that in a suit filed by neighbours for a right of passage, the ownership of the temple premises had been established - Furthermore, DW5, who exhibited the document, expressed his ignorance as to the manner in which it was prepared and there is nothing to show that he proved the document with the original records rather in cross-examination, conceded that he had no personal knowledge about she application made for registering the temple in the Book of Endowments - In view thereof, opportunity granted to the parties to adduce all evidence, oral and documentary, to determine as to whether the temple had been endowed by the father of the appellants - Appellants directed to file an appropriate representation before the concerned authority in support of their claim - Evidence Act, 1872 H - s. 114(e). |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice Amitava Roy |
Neutral Citation | 2017 INSC 1238 |
Petitioner | Vijendra Kumar & Ors. |
Respondent | The Commissioner, A.p. Charitable & Religious Institutions & Endowment Department & Anr. |
SCR | [2017] 12 S.C.R. 246 |
Judgement Date | 2017-12-15 |
Case Number | 6460 |
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