IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.6567 of 2022 ======================================================

1. Prahlad Kumar Yadav Son of Mahendra Prasad Resident of Village-

Marufganj, near State Bank of India, Post Office- Jhauganj, Police Station-

Patna City, District- Patna.

2. Umesh Kumar Son of Binod Prasad Yadav Resident of Village- Marufganj, Post Office- Marufganj, Police Station- Patna City, District- Patna.

... ... Petitioner/s Versus

1. The State of Bihar through the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, Patna.

2. The Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, Patna.

3. The Bihar State Board of Religious Trust, through its Secretary, Vidyapati Marg, Patna-1.

4. The President, the Bihar State Board of Religious Trust, Vidyapati Marg, Patna-1.

5. The Secretary, the Bihar State Board of Religious Trust, Vidyapati Marg, Patna-1.

6. The District Magistrate, Patna.

7. The Sub-Divisional Officer, Patna City, Patna.

8. The Administrator, Bihar State Religious Trust Board.

9. Dr. Rajesh Kumar Son of Anil Kumar Resident of Mohhalla - Marufganj (Lal Pathak), Patna City, Sampatchak, P.S. - Malsalami, District- Patna.

10. Bhagwan Das Son of Ram Sevak Lal Yadav Resident of Near Badi Devi Mandir, Marufganj, Mandi Patna City, P.O. - Marufganj, Nagla, Patna, P.S. -

Malsalami, District- Patna.

11. Sant Prasad Golwara Son of Rameshwar Prasad Golwara, Machharhatta Gali, Patna City, P.s. - Khajekala, District- Patna, Bihar - 800008.

12. Sunil Kumar Banka Son of Madan Mohan Banka, Resident of Jhauganj Ghat Lane, patna City, Nagla, P.S. - Chowk, District- Patna, Bihar - 800008.

13. Ishwar lal Agarwal Son of Jaisi Lal Agarwal, Resident of Pawan Vastralaya, Ashok Raj Path, Near Jhauganj Post Office, Nagla, Patna City, P.S. Chowk, District- Patna, Bihar - 800008.

... ... Respondent/s ======================================================

Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Advocate For the Respondent/s : Mr. Prashant Pratap (GP-2)

For the Intervenor : Mrs. Shama Sinha, Advocate Mr. Vijayansh Pratap Singh, Advocate Mr. Surya Prakash, Advocate For the Board : Mr. Ganpati Trivedi, Sr. Advocate ======================================================

CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER

11 13-02-2026 Heard Mr. Sanjay Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners, Mr. Ganpati Trivedi, learned Senior counsel representing the Bihar State Board of Religious Trust (for brevity ‘the Board’), Mrs. Shama Sinha, learned counsel representing the Intervenor respondents and Mr. Prashant Pratap, learned GP-2.

2. The present petition has been preferred for the following relief(s):

“for issuance of writ in the nature of certiorari or any other appropriate writ(s) order(s) direction(s) for quashing the part of the notification as contain in memo no. 5350 dated 21.03.2022 issued under signature of the President, Bihar State Board of Religious Trust (hereinafter referred to as "Board") whereby in purported exercise of power under section 32 of the Bihar Hindu Religious Trust Act, 1950 (hereinafter referred to as "Act") whereby a trust committee was constituted for management of Shree Badi Devi Ji Mandir, Marufganj, Patna city, Patna and wrongly vested the management of Seva Sadan in the trust committee of the said Shree Badi Devi Ji Mandir, Marufganj, Patna city, Patna which is not at all connected with the same and the petitioners further pray for to exclude the Seva Sadan from the preview of the aforesaid impugned notification and/or for issuance of such other writ(s), order(s) or direction(s), to which the petitioners are entitled to in the facts and circumstances averred hereinafter.

3. Lots of water has flown down the ganges in the present case after the writ petition was filed in the year 2022. The claim of the petitioner is/are that the Seva Sadan which is adjoining to the Shri Badi Devi Ji Temple, Marufganj, Patna City, Patna (henceforth for short, ‘the Temple’) is a separate entity inasmuch as it came up with the financial as