R.C. Lahoti, J.

1. The plaintiff/appellants have come up in appeal aggrieved by the judgments and decrees of the Courts below directing a suit for declaration and issuance of permanent preventive injunction to be dismissed as permature.

2. There is a temple situated at Datia adorned by the idol of Lord Hanumanji. Proceedings for registration of the temple as public trust have been initiated by the Registrar of Public Trusts, Datia, registered as 1/113-B/74-75. The proceedings have just been commenced and are yet pending. The plaintiffs filed a suit alleging that the temple and the building constituting the temple were all private properties of the plaintiffs and hence the Registrar of Public Trusts did not have jurisdiction either to register it as public trust or to interfere with the management thereof. In the written statement all the material plaint averments were denied and it was also submitted that the suit was premature. The plea of the defendant has prevailed with the Courts below.

3. Vide order dated 7-10-1983, this Court admitted the appeal for hearing parties on the following substantial questions of law :

(1) Whether Registrar, Public Trusts has jurisdiction to dec