236 of 1954.
The respondent wrote back to say that the administration of the temple and its properties was in the hands of a companymittee companystituted under a scheme made by the District Judge of Burdwan and approved by the Calcutta High Court, and these Courts being outside the jurisdiction of the Bihar Legislature, the Act did number apply to the temple and the respondent was number in a position to carry out the directions of the President of the Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts which might be in companyflict with those of the Calcutta High Court.
Mahabir Prasad, Advocate General for the State of Bihar, Bhagwat Prasad and S. P. Varma, for the appellants.
Sometime in August 1952 the President of the Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts acting under s. 59 of the Act asked the respondent to furnish a statement in respect of the Baidyanath temple and the.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by K. DAS, J. This is an appeal from the judgment and order of the High Court of Patna dated October 9, 1953, in Miscellaneous Judicial Case No.
181 of 1953 of that Court.
Appeal from the judgment and order dated October 9,1953, of the Patna High Court in Misc.
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For the purposes of this appeal it will be necessary to refer to some earlier litigation about this temple.
This Act established the Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts to discharge the functions assigned to the Board by the Act.
April 15.
It relates to a temple companymonly known as the Baidyanath temple situate in the town of Deoghar within the limits of Santal Parganas in the State of Bihar.
181 of 1953.
The Bihar Hindu Religious Trusts Act, 1950 Bihar I of 1951 , hereinafter referred to as the Act, received the Presidents assent on February 21, 1951, and came into force on August 15.
The history of this temple, it is number disputed, goes back to remote antiquity.
R. Das, A. C. Roy and R. R. Biswas, for the respondent.
properties appertaining thereto.
