1954 (8) TMI 43

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....tain hereditary trustees. In the year 1934, the H. R. E. Board framed a scheme for the administration of the temple and its properties. With certain modifications effected in 1945, the scheme was in operation till 1949, when the scheme was further modified by the District Court. The present petition has been filed to issue a writ prohibiting the Commissioner of the H. R. E. and two other responden....

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....es shall elect one of themselves to be the President and another as Vice-President. The President shall take the chair at all meetings and in his absence the Vice-President. It is noticed that neither the President nor the Vice-President has any powers worth mentioning. The Manager is also to be a member of the Board of Trustees and he is entitled to be present at the meetings and to vote. If in h....

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....manager. The most important event in connection with the temple is a festival of four weeks' duration. One month before the beginning of the festival the trustees are required to submit to the Board a special budget for its sanction. No expenditure which is not sanctioned by the Board may be incurred for the festival. To cap all this, paragraph 34 of the scheme says that the Board shall have p....

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....r less on the same model. Dealing with the schemes, the Court observed In (A) as follows: "In the result, we must hold that the provisions in the schemes in so far as they encroach upon the rights of the petitioners as hereditary trustees are void under Article 19(1)(f) of the Constitution." At one stage of the arguments it was suggested to me that I might indicate the provisions of the sche....