Person Having Interest - Definition - Law Dictionary

Definition :

Person having interest, means a disciple of the math or a person professing the Hindu religious or Sikh faith to which the math belongs, Mahant Sri Regunath Das v. Commissioner of Hindu Religious Endowment, (1986) 61 Cut LT 189 (Ori).

The definition of the expression 'person having interest' in s. 2(10), (as amended in 1953) which is an inclusive one, and includes the suit brought by two or more trustees in the name of the idol, to recover possession of its property against a person holding it adversely to the trust from the purview of s. 50(ii) of the Act. That expression is wide enough to include not merely the beneficiaries of a temple, math, wakf etc. but also the trustees, Shree Gollaleshwar Dev v. Gangawwa Kom Shantayya Math, AIR 1986 SC 231: (1985) 4 SCC 393: (1985) Supp 3 SCR 646: (1986) Mah LR 220 (SC). [Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950, s. 2 (10) 50 (ii) (a) and 51(1)]