https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=294353 A special statute governing the Lord Jagannath Temple at Puri prevails over a later general land-abolition regime where both operate in the same field, so the conflicting proviso treating temple lands as trust estates could not displace the Temple Act's vesting of the properties in the Temple Managing Committee. The related vesting notification was therefore ineffective to that extent. The text also notes that settlement claims under the abolition law had to be pursued by the intermediary before the Collector within time, and that such quasi-judicial power could not be exercised by a Tahsildar administratively. On that basis, the Math's settlement claim was unsustainable and the settlement order was set aside. en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:50:12 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=294353 A special statute governing the Lord Jagannath Temple at Puri prevails over a later general land-abolition regime where both operate in the same field, so the conflicting proviso treating temple lands as trust estates could not displace the Temple Act's vesting of the properties in the Temple Managing Committee. The related vesting notification was therefore ineffective to that extent. The text also notes that settlement claims under the abolition law had to be pursued by the intermediary before the Collector within time, and that such quasi-judicial power could not be exercised by a Tahsildar administratively. On that basis, the Math's settlement claim was unsustainable and the settlement order was set aside. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=294353