JUDGMENT :

Heard Mr. Alok Kumar Choudhary, learned Counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Ganpati Trivedi, learned Senior Counsel appearing for the respondent.

2. The present writ petition has been preferred for quashing of the order dated 26.09.2022 (Annexure 6) passed by the President, Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts, Patna by which the petitioner has been directed to submit the details of income and expenditure account and bank account for the last five years to it.

3. The case has chequered history. In the Court of Authority under section 43 of the Bihar Hindu Religious Trust Act, 1950 (henceforth for short ‘the Trust’), a case no. 35 of 1963 was registered in which the President of ‘the Trust’ was the petitioner while the present petitioner herein was the opposite party.

4. The prayer was to declare that the public temple situated in Belwarganj under Gulzarbagh Police Station in the District of Patna is a Public Trust.

5. After hearing both the sides on 19.09.1964, the following order was passed:-

“On a consideration of the evidence on the record and the circumstances of the case I hold that the petitioner has failed to prove that the temple in question is a public temple rather t