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Right to Put Name Stone on Common Temple - The court held that individuals do not have the right to inscribe their names on a public or common temple, as such temples are considered collective religious institutions rather than personal property. The temple's status as a public Hindu temple means it cannot be owned or personalized by individuals through name stones. TRIVIKRAM NARAIN SINGH VS STATE - Allahabad
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Definition of Religious Denomination and Temple Ownership - A religious denomination must be a group of individuals sharing a common faith, organized under a distinctive name, and functioning as a collective. Public temples do not meet this criterion as they are not collections of individuals but communal entities. The court emphasized that mere existence of multiple temples does not automatically confer individual ownership rights. Ram Jankijee Deities VS State Of Bihar - Supreme Court, Chellam Pillai & Others VS Palavesam Pillai & Others - Madras
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Private vs. Public Temples - Temples that are private and restricted to members of a specific community are considered private property and not subject to public inscription or individual claims. Such temples are managed by community members or hereditary trustees and are not open for individual personalization like name stones. The Commissioner, H. R. & C. E. (Admn. ) Department, Madras VS Sri Andarvillai Mutharamman Temple, Eraniel - Madras, Aaralvaimozhi Sri Nainar Kulasekara Vinayagar Vellala Samudaya Temple, Vadakoor, Aaralvoimozhi represented by its Trustees and others VS Palavesam Pillai and others - Madras
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Ownership and Construction Rights - Ownership of temple property and rights to construct or modify temples are generally vested in trusts or community bodies, not individuals. Valid resolutions by the managing body are required for construction, and individual claims without proper authority are not recognized. Shree Chandraprabhu Maharaj Juna Jain Mandir Trust (Regd. ), rep by its Secretary, Chennai & Others VS Dadabadi Sri Jin-Kushalsuriji Jin-Chandrasuriji Trust, by its Managing Trustee, Chennai & Another - Madras
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Management and Preservation - The management of temples, especially public ones, is governed by statutory laws such as the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1959. Authorities are responsible for administration, land retrieval from encroachers, and maintenance, but cannot interfere with religious practices or prescribe rituals. Subramania Aiyar VS Pujari Lakshmana Goundan - Madras, SARIKA VS ADMINISTRATOR, SHRI MAHAKALESHWAR MANDIR COMMITTEE, UJJAIN (M. P. ) - Supreme Court
Analysis and Conclusion:
Individuals do not possess the legal right to inscribe their names or put name stones on common or public temples, which are regarded as collective religious institutions. Such temples are managed by community or trust bodies, and their properties are considered public or communal assets. Personalization through name stones is incompatible with the collective and public nature of these temples, and any modifications or inscriptions require proper authority and adherence to legal and religious protocols.
Search Results for "Individual has no Right to Put Name Stone on Comman Temple"
1986 0 Supreme(All) 346 • India - Allahabad
J.N.DUBEY, R.M.SAHAI
, not to individual temples or their priests. ... It held that a religious denomination must be a collection of individuals with a common faith, organization, and distinctive name ... The temple did not meet this definition because it was not a collection of individuals but a public Hindu temple. 2. ... It reads as under :-"a collection of individuals together under the same name, a religious sect or body having a ....
1999 5 Supreme 405 • India - Supreme Court
UMESH C.BANERJEE, J.JAGANNADHA RAO
nbsp;We thus feel it expedient to record that petitioner Nos. 1 and 2 (or Thakur Raja as the case may be) are entitled to individual ... personality-Two units ought to be granted rather then one as has been effected by Single Judge-Petitioner No. 1 and 2 entitled to individual ... within area of land-Collector holding that mere existence of two temples by itself cannot be said to be ground for entitlement of ... ‘Temple as defined means a place by whatever designation known, used as a place of public religious worship, a....
2003 0 Supreme(Mad) 191 • India - Madras
K.GNANAPRAKASAM
The court also emphasized the need for a religious denomination to be designated by a distinctive name and to have a common faith ... to the Vadakoor Vellala community, as evidenced by their exclusive management and administration of the temple. ... Ratio Decidendi: The court held that the Sri Nainar Kulasekara Vinayagar Temple was a denominational institution belonging ... Aaralvoimozhi is the name of a place and vellala is the community and the Samudhayam is a group of people. All these things if #HL....
2005 0 Supreme(Bom) 1488 • India - Bombay
N.A.BRITTO
of the temple was done by ’Y ’ who was a Mahajan of the temple; by stating that a marble stone was fixed on the temple by ’Y ’, ... Partition contemplates division of real or personal property which is in common into individual ownership of interests of each. ... into individual ownership of interest of each - Joint owners divide property being in common among them in severally. - One fails ... Partition contemplates division of real or personal prop....
1998 0 Supreme(Mad) 831 • India - Madras
RAJU, T.MEENA KUMARI
being private not amenable to public and only members of one community are allowed-Held, temple is a private one. ... Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1959-Section 6(16), (17), (18) and (20)-Contention of respondents that suit temple ... They claimed that their common ancestor as ‘Andar’. They have put up a small thatched shed and housed a deity, made-up of clay, to satisfy their spiritual needs and this was on account of the denial of their entry into the other temples. ... It was further....
2008 0 Supreme(Mad) 1440 • India - Madras
V.RAMASUBRAMANIAN
The defendant-Trust claimed ownership of the property and the right to construct the temple. ... and funds collected in the name of the plaintiff-Trust. ... to construct a temple known as 'Shree Sumathinath Bhagawan Jain Swethambar Temple'. ... On the other hand, if the plaintiff-Trust has no right to put up the construction of the temple, a validly convened Extraordinary General Body Meeting and a validly passed resolution, will not create any #HL_S....
2003 0 Supreme(Mad) 190 • India - Madras
K.GNANAPRAKASAM
, authorities not entitled to interfere with the management of the temple. ... Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1959-Section 6(20), Constitution of India-Articles 26(a) and (6)-Declaration of a temple ... as denominational institution-Suit filed-Evidence on record showing the temple a religions denomination of plaintiffs community-Held ... Aaralvoimozhi is the name of a place and Vellala is the community and the Samudhayam is a group of people. All these things if put together the plaintif....
1919 0 Supreme(Mad) 231 • India - Madras
BURN, S.AIYAR
had been managed by a hereditary trustee, which was a common practice in public temples. * The temple had been entered in the public ... Kattalais and Chatrams for the benefit of the temple. * The temple had been endowed with properties by the public. * The temple ... proper administration of the temple. ... In the case of a dedication of the second kind, it has to be shown that the property ceased to belong to the individual and was given up for the....
2018 0 Supreme(SC) 528 • India - Supreme Court
ARUN MISHRA, UDAY UMESH LALIT
– To protect and preserve the deity from corrosion is within jurisdiction of the Court – Temple Committee directed to make a concrete ... practices and pooja – Not for the Court to dictate or to prescribe or restrain the religious practices and Pujas to be performed in temple ... ... On the right of the Anadikalpeshwar temple has Briddhakaleshwar temple on the same level of floor as the former laid in red stone flooring like Anadikalpeshwar, this temple is also repai....
2021 0 Supreme(Mad) 3305 • India - Madras
R.MAHADEVAN, P.D.AUDIKESAVALU
the same, retrieval of the temple lands and properties from the encroachers, extent of lands owned by them, occupiers of the same ... Mamallapuram for each District and also other staff and if necessary, get approval for creation of certain posts, like Oduvars, temple ... Further, during the pendency of this suo motu writ petition, despite the order of this Court, the temple structures have been demolished ... . agricultural or otherwise, current rent, date of fixation of rent, current market rent, name of lessee/tenant,....
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