Court : Orissa
Reported in : AIR1973Ori244; 1976CriLJ405
G.K. Misra, C.J. 1. By order of the Full Court to initiate a proceeding for contempt, the Registrar of the High Court issued the contempt notice dated 3-7-1972 (here-inafter to be referred to as the Notice) to Shri Baradakanta Misra, the alleged contem-ner (hereinafter to be referred to as the contemner) calling upon him to appear in person and to show cause on 3-8-1972 as to why be shall not be punished or any other appropriate order not be passed against him for contempt of the High Court. On 26-7-1972 the contemner filed a petition by way of preliminary reply. On 7-8-1972 be filed his show-cause application. The contemrer filed Criminal Appeal No. 174/72 before the Supreme Court to quash the notice. Therein he made the State of Orissa a party through its Chief Secretary. The Legal Re-membrancer-cum-the ex-officio Additional Secretary, Law Department, filed an affidavit (Annexure-1) before the Supreme Court on behalf of the State giving detailed history with reference to the averment...
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Reported in : AIR1952Ori152
Narasimham, J.1. This appeal is by defendant No. 1 the Commissioner of Hindu Religious Endowments, Orissa, against the concurrent decisions of the two lower Courts declaring the plaintiff and defendants 2 and 3 to be hereditary trustees of the temple of Sri Dahibaban Mohaprabhu located at village Kulada in Ghumsur taluq. On 20-10-44 the Commissioner, H.B.E., Orissa passed an order (Ex. 1) declaring the temple to be a non-excepted temple and thereupon the plaintiff instituted the present suit under Section 64(2) of the Orissa Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1939.2. It is an admitted fact that the said temple was constructed by the Raja of Ghumsur sometime before Fasli 1247(1837 AD) and some lands were also endowed for the worship and bhog of the deity Sri Dadhibaban Mohaprabhu installed in that temple. The plaintiff's case was that soon after the installation of the deity and the creation of the endowment the then Raja of Ghumsur appointed the ancestor of the plaintiff as the hereditary...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Orissa
Reported in : AIR1959Ori5
R.L. Narasimham, C.J.1. This is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution by the Raja of Puri challenging the constitutional validity of Sri Jagannath Temple Act, 1955 (Orissa Act II of 1955) (hereinafter referred to as the Act) passed by the Orissa Legislature and published in the Orissa Gazettee dated 4-11-1955.2. The petition was filed by Sri Ramchandra Deb, who made extravagant claims to the effect that the Temple of Lord Jagannath at Puri (hereinafter referred to as the Temple) was the private temple of his family, that all its movcable and immovable properties were also his private properties, and that by passing the Act the Orissa Legislature infringed the fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 14, 19, 26, 27, 28 and 31(2) of the Constitution. Sri Ramchandra Deb died after the filing of the petition and his son Sri Bira Kishore Deb, was substituted in his place on 5-3-1957. Mr. A. C. Gupta who appeared for Sri Bira Kishore Deb frankly conceded that the Temple was a ...
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