It was in pursuance of this recommendation that Inam Title Deed No.
The recommendation of the Inam Commissioner in Column 22 was that the title deed should be issued in the name of the priest for the time being of the Ahobila Matam.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No 446 of 1973 From the Judgment and Order dated 18.11.1970 of the Madras High Court in Writ Appeal No.
389 of 1967.
The levy of the assessment was questioned by the Ahobila Matam by a Writ Petition in the Madras High Court.
Column 13 mentioned the original grantee as the Ahobilam Servatantra Sri Srinivasa Swami, apparently, the then Jeer of the Matam.
28, 1963 levying full assessment on the lands.
The lands are companyered by Inam Title Deed No.2214 dated July 29, 1881 granted by the Inam Commissioner to the Manager for the time being of Sri Ahobila Matam.
22 14 was issued.
By the title deed, the Inam Commissioner, by order of the Governor in Council of Madras acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for India in Council, acknowledged the title of the Ahobila Matam to a religious endowment or a Matam Inam companysisting of the right to the Government Revenue on land claimed to be acres 28.11 cents of dry, 58.38 acres of wet and 6.83 acres of garden and situated in the whole village of Narasimhapuram besides Poramboke in the taluk of Kumbakonam District of Tanjore and held for the support of the Ahobila Matam and companyfirmed the Inam to the Manager for the time being of the Ahobila Matam and his successor tax free to be held without interference so long as the companyditions are duly fulfilled.
It was presumed that the inam was companyferred for the benefit of the Matam.
Consequent on the enactment of the Madras Inams Assessment Act, 1956, the Revenue Divisional Officer, Kumbakonam made an order on February.
The question relates to the applicability of the Tamil Nadu Inams Assessment Act, 1956 in regard to some lands situated in Narasimhapuram, Papanasam Taluk, Thanjavur District belonging to the institution.
The extract of the Inam Fair Register mentioned in Column 8 that the grant was made by one of the Tanjore Princes, but that the purpose of the grant was number known.
133 1 c of the Constitution.
Ram Kumar and Mrs. J. Ramachandran for the Respondent.
M. Abdul Khader and A.V. Rangam for the Appellant.
The respondent is the Ahobila Matam, a well known religious institution.
The appellant is the State of Tamil Nadu.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHINNAPPA REDDY, J. This appeal is by a certificate granted by the Madras High Court under Art.
