JUDGMENT :

ASHUTOSH KUMAR, J.

1. Heard Mr. R.K.P. Singh, assisted by Mr. Mukesh Kant, the learned Advocates for the appellant and Mr. Ganpati Trivedi, Senior Advocate for the respondent/Bihar State Hindu Religious Trust Board.

2. The State is represented by Mr. Gyan Prakash Ojha (GP-7).

3. The judgment under challenge has been delivered on 04.02.2020 in C.W.J.C. No. 15159 of 2019.

4. The appellant had initially filed the writ petition for quashing the Notification No. 3292 dated 25.03.2017 passed by the Administrator of Bihar State Hindu Religious Trust Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board) by which a new Trust Committee was constituted. Later, the prayer was permitted to be amended for challenging the Letter No. 2848 dated 02.02.2017 passed by the Administrator of the Board, by which the petitioner was removed from the position of Trustee of Sri Ram Janki Temple, Goriakothi, Siwan.

5. The argument advanced on behalf of the appellant is that the Board assumed jurisdiction over the private Trust of the appellant, which authority the Board never possessed. The only reason for the Board to interfere with the functions of the private Trust is perhaps a complaint, first of all made