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2025 Supreme(Online)(SC) 10806

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
SURYA KANT, JOYMALYA BAGCHI, JJ
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THAKUR SHREE BANKEY BIHARI JI MAHARAJ TEMPLE & ANR. – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ORS. – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. Shivansh Bharatkumar Pandya, Mr. Gopal Sankarnararayan, Mr. Prabhat Chaurasia, Mr. Nitish Raj, Mr. Mahek Maheshwari, Ms. Smuriti Gangadhar, Mr. Jasdeep Singh Dhillon, Mr. Anirudh Jamwal, Ms. Kenisha Savla, Mr. Shyam Divan, Mr. Nikhil Goel, Ms. Tanvi Dubey, Mr. Malak Bhatt, Mr. Yash Dubey, Mr. Rongon Choudhury, Mr. Shaurya Rai, Mr. Mekala Ganesh Kumar Reddy, Mr. Vansh Chauhan, Ms. Riddhi Jain, Mr. Akash Vashishtha, Mr. Shubham Upadhyay, Ms. Anukriti Bajpai, Mr. Suhail Dutt, Mr. Azhar Alam, Ms. B. Vijayalakshmi Menon, Mr. Kapil Sibal, Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Mr. Ashutosh Jha, Ms. Aparajita Jamwal, Ms. Saushiraya Havelia, Ms. Tanvi Anand, Mr. Pranjal Mishra, Mr. Shivam Tomar, Ms. Devyani Gupta, Mr. Avadh Bihar Kaushik, Mr. Vishnu Dutt Sharma
For the Respondents: Mr. KM Nataraj, Mr. Navin Pahwa, Mr. Sharan Dev Singh Thakur, Ms. Ruchira Goel, Ms. Indira Bhakar, Ms. Veera Mahuli, Ms. Sharanya Sinha, Dr. A P Singh, Mr. V P Singh, Ms. Richa Singh, Mr. Nihal Shekhawat, Ms. Geeta Chauhan, Ms. Pratima Rani, Mr. Ashish Singh, Mr. Sachin Agarwal, Mr. Pranav Kumar Srivastva, Mr. Sadashiv, Ms. Shilpi Chowdhary, Mr. Narendra Kumar Goswami, Mr. Amarkant Patel, Ms. Vibha Datta Makhija, Mr. A. Radhakrishnan, Mr. Shiv Kumar, Ms. Vaishnavi, Mr. Sujeet Rajan.

Table of Content
1. procedural aspects of permissions granted. (Para 1 , 2 , 3)

ORDER

1. Delay condoned.

2. Permission to file miscellaneous applications is granted. Permission to appear and argue in-person is granted.

3. Applications for impleadment/intervention are allowed. Cause title be amended accordingly.

4. The present batch of Writ Petition(s) and Miscellaneous Application(s) chiefly pertain to the management and development of the Thakur Shree Bankey Bihari Ji Maharaj Temple at Vrindavan, Mathura in Uttar Pradesh (hereinafter, “the Temple”). The core concerns of the petitioners seem to stem from the promulgation of the Uttar Pradesh Shri Bankey Bihari Ji Temple Trust Ordinance , 2025 (hereinafter, “the Ordinance”) which allows the State to establish a Trust for managing the affairs of the Temple.

5. At the outset, we may briefly advert to the factual circumstances relevant for the purposes of the present adjudication. The subject-Temple is admittedly a centuries-old, world-renowned destination for Hindu devotees and pilgrims in India, with significant spiritual and cultural import. It is a matter of record that the Temple was constructed in 1864 on land gifted by Raja Ratan Sin

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