Supreme Court of India

The Durgah Committee, Ajmer and Another v. Syed Hussain Ali and Others

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Reported as [1962] 1 S.C.R. 383

Bench P.B. Gajendragadkar J.

Decided 17 March 1961

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What the Court ordered

In the result the appeal is allowed, the order issued by the High Court is set aside and the petition filed by the respondents dismissed with costs throughout.

Judgment, page 39

From the headnote

Durgah Endowment - Enactment for administration and management of property-If violative of denominational rights of Chishtia Soofies-Provisions, if infringe fundamental rights-Dur gah Khwaja Saheb Act, r955 (XX XV 1 of r955), ss. 2(d)(v), 4, 5, II(f) and (h), r3, r4, r6, r8-Constitution of India. Arts. 25, 26, r9(r)(j) and (g), r4, 32. The respondents, who were the Khadims of the tomb of Hazrat Khwaja Moin-ud-din Chisbti of Ajmer challenged the constitutional validity of the Durgah Khwaja Saheb Act, 1955 (XXXV! of 1955) and certain specified sections by a petition filed under Art. 226 of the

Authorities it was built on

1957 Sri Venkataramana Devaru and Others v. The State of Mysore and Others cited by 18

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1961 The Commissioner of Income-tax, Bombay v. The Scindia Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. mentioned

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