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2025 Supreme(SC) 857

ABHAY S. OKA, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH
Prasannatma Das – Appellant
Versus
K. N. Haridasan Nambiar (Dead) – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR Mr. J. Rajesh, Adv. Mr. Avinash Mathews, Adv. Mr. Krishnan Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. V. Srinivasa Raghavan, Sr. Adv. Mr. V. Lakshmikumaran, Adv. Mr. Vikas Singh Jangra, AOR Mr. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. D.K. Devesh, Adv. Mr. Kartik Seth, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Dave, Sr. Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kartik Seth, Adv. Ms. Shriya Gilhotra, Adv. Mr. Vikas Jangra, Adv. Ms. Maithili Moondra, Adv. Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. D K Devesh, Adv. Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv. Ms. Shriya Gilhotra, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Chaturvedi, Adv. Ms. Maithili Moondra, Adv. Mr. Chiranjeev Sharma, Adv. Mr. Prashanth R. Dixit, Adv. Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Bhati, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Chiranjeev Sharma, Adv. Mr. Pushkin Tandon, Adv. Ms. Medha Srivastava, Adv. M/S. Chambers of Kartik Seth, AOR Mr. Vikas Singh Jangra, AOR Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashish Batra, AOR Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kuriakose Varghese, Adv. Mr. Velayudhan Shyamohan, Adv. Ms. Anshika Bajpai, Adv. Mr. Akshat Gogna, Adv. Ms. Tissy Annie Thomas, Adv. Ms. Vrinda Baheti, Adv. Ms. B. Vijayalakshmi Menon, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kartik Seth, Adv. M/S. Chambers of Kartik Seth, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. V. Srinivasa Raghavan, Sr. Adv. Mr. V. Lakshmikumaran, Adv. Mr. Vikas Singh Jangra, AOR Ms. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. D.K. Devesh, Adv. Mr. Kartik Seth, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. D.K. Devesh, AOR Mr. Upendra Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Harsh Singh Rawat, Adv. Mr. Suprabh Kumar Roshan, Adv. Mr. Shashank Saurav, Adv. Mr. Shailja Nanda Mishra, Adv. Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, Adv. Mr. Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Adv. Mr. Santosh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Majithia, Adv. Mr. Joydeep Roy, Adv. Mr. Pranit Pranav, Adv. Mr. Palav Mongia, Adv. Mr. Rohit Subramonium, Adv. Mr. Yuvraj Gaekwad, Adv. Mr. N.K. Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Sourabh Rajpal, Adv. Ms. Shalini Kaul, Adv. Mr. Pushpinder Singh, AOR Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar Roy, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv. Mr. Shanti Ranjan, Adv. Ms. Bhavishya Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Manish Mittal, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Arora, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kuriakose Varghese, Adv. Mr. Velayudhan Shyamohan, Adv. Ms. Anshika Bajpai, Adv. Mr. Akshat Gogna, Adv. Ms. Tissy Annie Thomas, Adv. Ms. Vrinda Baheti, Adv. Ms. B. Vijayalakshmi Menon, AOR Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. Nachiketa Joshi, AOR Ms. Sucheta Joshi, Adv. Ms. Himadri Haksar, Adv. Ms. Karishma Rajput, Adv. Ms. Sagrika Arya, Adv. Mr. Karan Tomar, Adv. Mr. Prem Prakash, AOR Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. D.L. Chidananda, AOR Mr. Siddhartha Dave, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kartik Seth, Adv. Mr. Vikas Jangra, Adv. Ms. Sanskriti Pathak, Adv. Mr. D K Devesh, Adv. Ms. Shriya Gilhotra, Adv. Ms. Maithili Moondra, Adv. Mr. Prashanth R. Dixit, Adv. Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Bhati, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Chiranjeev Sharma, Adv. Mr. Pushkin Tandon, Adv. Ms. Medha Srivastava, Adv. M/S. Chambers of Kartik Seth, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr. Vikas Singh Jangra, AOR

Table of Content
1. background on iskcon society litigation. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5)
2. claims and counterclaims related to property. (Para 6 , 7 , 8)
3. appellant's argument on membership and governance. (Para 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17)
4. respondent's argument against appeal standing. (Para 18 , 19 , 20)
5. arguments concerning property entitlement and management. (Para 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26)
6. discussion on legal validity of actions. (Para 30 , 32)
7. analysis of the trial court's findings. (Para 33 , 37 , 38)
8. ownership of schedule 'a' property and its legal implications. (Para 39 , 50)
9. final conclusions on appeals and property ownership. (Para 56 , 57)
10. overall conclusion and dismissal of appeals. (Para 72 , 73 , 74)

JUDGMENT :

FACTUAL ASPECTS

SUIT NO. 1758 of 2003

3. In the Suit, the following reliefs were prayed for:-

4. The learned judge of the City Civil Court, Bangalore, by his judgment and decree dated 17th April 2009, dismissed the suit. The learned Judge held that the plaintiffs have failed to prove that the 1st to 5th plaintiffs and the 1st to 10th defendants constitute the General Body of the ISKCON Bangalore. Similarly, it was held that the plaintiffs failed to p

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