Supreme Court of India

Balkrishna Savalram Pujari and Others v. Shree Dnyaneshwar Maharaj Sansthan & Others

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Reported as [1959] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 476

Bench P.B. Gajendragadkar J.

Decided 26 March 1959

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Limitation-Suit for possession of Sansthan by hereditary wor shippers on ouster by trustees-Period of limitation-Trustees, if in possession adversely to plaintiffs-Ouster, if a continuing wrong -Indian Limitation Act, I908 (9 of I908), Arts. I20, I24, s. 23. The appellants who were the hereditary worshippers, called Guravs, of the Shree Dnyaneshwar Sansthan of Alandi, claimed to be its owners. The respondents as trustees of the said Sansthan dismissed eleven of the Guravs in 1911~ served a notice on the rest calling upon them to agree to act according to the orders of the Temple committee

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