Supreme Court of India

Nar Hari Sastri and Others v. Shri Badrinath Temple Committee

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Reported as [1952] 1 S.C.R. 849
Bench Saiyad Fazl Ali, Mukherjea and Das JJ.
Decided 9 May 1952

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Hindu law-Religious Endowments-Right to worship-Right of Pandas to accompany worshippers to temple-Bye-law of temple committee to prohibit taking of gifts within temple precincts -Validity-Badrinath Temple Act, 1939, ss. 3, 4. The right of the Deoprayagi Pandas to enter the Badrinath Temple along with their Yajmans is not a precarious or permis- sive right depending for its existence on the arbitrary dis- cretion of the temple authorities; it is a legal right in the true sense of the expression, but it can be exercised only subject to the restrictions which the temple committee may impose in

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