This appeal by special leave is directed against the judgment and order of a Division Bench of the Punjab Haryana High Court at Chandigarh, dated January 11, 1984 passed in First Appeal from Order hearing No.189 of 1973.
There is an admission of Kahan Dass, one of the petitioners ancestor that he recited and displayed Guru Granth Sahib.
Later the State of PEPSU was merged with effect from 1.11.1956 in the State of Punjab whereat beforehand the Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925 thereinafter referred to as the Act, stood enforced.
An institution, as held to be charitable, is located within the revenue estate of village Kanganpur, Tahsil Malerkotla, District Sangrur, Punjab, which was within the erstwhile Malerkotla State, ruled by muslim Nawabs.
Notice was issued to the Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, the respondent herein by the Tribunal.
As said earlier, numbersuch step was taken.
Vide Order dated May 5, 1972 it companycluded against the Committee respondent by holding as follows The fact that emerges from all this evidence is, that the Dera is meant for the looking after and maintenance of blind persons who are entrusted to its charges and for running the Langar to provide food for them and also to the Faqirs and other needy persons.
Punchhi J. Rival applicant for substitution, Gurdev Dass, claiming to be Chela of Uttam Dass deceased appellant, is also permitted to be brought on record, supportive of the appeal, without deciding the rival claims of Gurdev Dass vis a vis Kesar Dass, who is already brought on record claiming himself to be Chela of Uttam Dass, deceased appellant, vide order dated 25.1.1993.
