Supreme Court of India

Math Sauna and Ors. v. Kedar Nath @ Uma Shankar & Ors.

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Reported as [1982] 1 S.C.R. 659
Decided 4 September 1981

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Hindu Law-Sannyasi-Whether could acquire personal property-Property acquired by application ofnucelus-Tests for deciding. The plaintiffs in their suit claimed that the properties in dispute belonged to the Math Sauna temple and that one of the plaintiffs Mahant Sadashiva Yati on the death of his predecessor was elected as Mahant of the temple and that therefore as Sarbarakar he was entitled to all the properties recorded in the name of the deity or his predecessor. The defendant claimed that by virtue of a will executed by Mahant Shiv .. shankar Yati, the predecessor Mahant, the properties in

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