Judgment

UNTWALIA, J. :- The plaintiffs respondents in this appeal filed by the defendants appellants by special leave of this Court from the decision of the High Court of Judicature of Punjab and Haryana filed a suit in the year 1963 against appellant No. 1 alone (for the sake of brevity described as the appellant hereinafter in this judgment) praying for a decree for parmanent injunction against him to restrain him "from interfering with the maintaining of the Guru Granth Sahib for religious recitals in the Darbar Sahib in the Dharamsala also known as Dharamsala Dera Baba Jaimal Singh situated in village Balsarai Tehsil and District Amritsar as also restraining him from interfering with the plaintiffs and other satsangis rights of reciting the Guru Granth Sahib and holding and joining the religious congregations and Satsang in the above mentioned Gurdwara Baba Jaimal Singh."

2. About 70 years prior to the institution of the suit one Sant Baba Jaimal Singh used to reside end practice spiritual Sadhana at the place aforesaid. The residents of village Balsarai held him in great respect because of his high spiritual achievements and noble living. He got a Dharamsala built which came to