According to the appellant on April 11, 1961 about 52 persons of Tehsil Barnala, District Sangrur, gave an application under Sub section 1 of Section 7 of the Act to get the Dera in question declared a Sikh Gurdwara which application was still pending on the date of the filing of the Writ petition on August 21, 1965 before the Singh Gurdwara Tribunal.
1251 of 1969 filed petition under Section 5 of the Act claiming rights and interest in the above mentioned property.
It is alleged that the followers of this Sampradaya form a distinct religious denomination, as such the numberification dated February 17, 1961 including it in Sch.
1 and Sections 5, 7 and 8 of the Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925, which were challenged, were held to be valid.
354 and 1251 of 1969 are by certificate against the judgment of the Full Bench of the Punjab Haryana High Court in Civil Writ Petition Nos.
The appellant thereupon filed a writ petition in the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution on the allegation that he was an Udasi faqir and that the shrine in question was an Udasi institution and number a Sikh Gurdwara.
354 of 1969 is an Udasi Sadh and Mahant of Dera Udasi Sadhan.
In reply to a numberice issued to him, Lachhman Dass appellant in civil appeal No.
In all these appeals the places of worship to which the impugned provisions have been made applicable were situated in the erstwhile Patiala and East Punjab States Union.
The full Bench in its judgment referred to the basis on which certain historical Sikh Gurdwaras of erstwhile Pepsu area were included in Sch.
The petition was resisted by the State of Punjab and the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee SGPC .
The petition was ultimately decided by a Full Bench and the companytentions of the petitioner were rejected by the majority.
The appellants petition was forwarded to the Sikh Gurdwara Tribunal.
By a separate numberification a companysolidated list of rights, title and interest claimed to belong to the Gurdwara was also published.
This Board companytinued to function even after the Amending Act came into force.
1222 of 1969 is by certificate.
These facts, in my opinion, were sufficient to clothe the appellant with a right to file the petition before the High Court.
He prayed that a number of provisions of the Act might be declared to be violative of the appellants rights under the Constitution.
514 of 1966 and 1935 of 1962 respectively in which by majority the provisions of Section 3 read with Sch.
Against that Judgment Civil Appeal No.
2310 of 1965 was also disposed of by a Division Bench of that High Court.
Following the Full Bench Judgment in the above two Civil Writ Petitions.
Civil Writ Petition No.
Civil Appeals Nos.
The application of the appellant was rejected by the Tribunal on the ground that it was number germane to the inquiry.
