Orissa Court May 1958 Judgments
Srinivasa Ramanuja Das Vs. Commissioner of Orissa Hindu Religious Endo ...
Court: Orissa
Decided on: May-12-1958
Reported in: AIR1959Ori83
R.L. Narasimham, C.J. 1. This is an application under Article 226 of the Constitution by the present Mahant of Dakshina Parswa Math, Puri, challenging the validity of a scheme dated the 14th January 1954 settled by the Commissioner of Hindu Religious Endowments, Orissa, in association with another gazetted officer, for the administration of the said Math. The scheme was published in the Orissa Gazette dated the 29th January 1934 at page 64.2. Dakshinaparswa Math of Puri is a well known Srivaishnava Math following the Vishishtadwit philosophy propounded by Sri Ramanuja. The petitioner succeeded to the Mahantship on the 6th September 1956, on the demise of his Gum Mahant Sri Jaganath Ramanuja Das. During the year 1953 the then Commissioner of Hindu Religious Endowments held an enquiry under section 38 of the Orissa Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1939 (Orissa Act IV of 1939) (hereinafter referred to as the old Act) into certain allegations of mismanagement made against the previous Mahan...
Tag this Judgment!Mahant Jagannath Ramanuja Das Vs. B.K. Patra, Commissioner of Hindu Re ...
Court: Orissa
Decided on: May-12-1958
Reported in: AIR1959Ori117
R.L. Narasimham, C.J.1. The material facts have been fully dealt with in my judgment in Srinivasa Ramanuja Das v. Commr. of Orissa Hindu Religious Endowments Board O. J. C. No. 120 of 1957: (AIR 1958 Orissa 83) delivered today. It is therefore unnecessary to repeat them in this judgment.2. The main question for consideration in this application is whether the various detailed provisions made in the scheme dated 14-1-1954 settled by the Endowment Commissioner, Orissa and his associate officer for the administration of Dakshinaparswa Math, are invalid as either offending the Constitution or the relevant Sections of the Orissa Hindu Religious Endowments Act 1951 (Orissa Act II of 1952) (hereinafter referred to as the new Act).In Sadashib Prakash v. State of Orissa (S) AIR 1956 SC 432 their Lordships of the Supreme Court pointed out that though by virtue of Section 79-A of the new Act a scheme framed under the Orissa Hindu Religious Endowments Act 1939 (Orissa Act IV of 1939) (hereinafter ...
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