Abdul Gaffoor Hadjiar Et Al. V. Ahamadu Lebbe Marikar

1931  Present: Lyall Grant and Brieberg JJ.

ABDUL GAFFOOR HADJIAR et al. v. AHAMADU LEBBE
MARIKAR et al.

367-8-D. C. Colombo, 34,834

Action-Trustees of mosque-Appointment of priests-Meeting of congregation -Exclusion of electors-Declaration that the proceedings are irregular Civil right-Maradana Mosque Ordinance. No. 22 of 1924.

By Ordinance No. 22 of 1924 meetings of the congregation of the Maradana Mosque have to be called by the Secretary of the Board of Trustees on the request of the Board or the Executive Committee or of fifty members of the congregation. The control of the priests is vested in the Executive Committee, who are given, inter alia, the power to fill any vacancy caused among the priests, subject to the approval or otherwise of the congregation. A chartered accountant to audit the half-yearly balance sheet has to be selected by the congregation. Certain members of the Executive Committee acting in concert excluded from a meeting held for submitting for approval the appointment of two priests and for appointing an auditor, a large number of the congregation who had not registered themselve

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