Supreme Court of India
Guruvayur Devaswom Managing Committee and Anr. v. C.K. Rajan and Ors.
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We are of the view that the weighty submissions made by counsel to the extent they are relevant when the final report comes up for consideration may be considered in depth then, Some of the pleas raised by Mr.
Judgment, page 42
From the headnote
Guruvayoor Devasom Act, 1978, Sections 6, 17, 18, 23 to 26, 36, 38: Sree Krishna Temple-Management of-Letter received by High Court Judge containing complaint of serious irregularities in a temple-High Court treating the said letter as Public interest litigation petition-Correctness of Held: Not correct-When statute governs the field and State takes over the management ordinarily court would not step in-Court to step in only when State fails to perform its duty-High Court erred in appointing Commissioner and taking recourse to the remedies provided for in other statutes-Recourse to the other
Authorities it was built on
- 2002 Bhavnagar University v. Palitana Sugar Mill Pvt, Ltd. and Ors.
- 1982 State of Maharashtra v. Ramdas Shrinivas Nayak & Anr.
- 1963 Tilkayat Shri Govindlalji Maharaj v. The State of Rajasthan and Others
- 1978 Charles Sobraj v. The Suptd., Central Jail, Tihar, New Delhi
- 1997 Sri Adi Visheshwara of Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi and Ors. Etc. v. The State of U.P. and Ors.
- 1997 Sri Kanyaka Parameswari Anna Satram Committee and Ors. Etc. v. The Commissioner, Hindu Religious Charitable and Endowments and Ors. Etc.
Where later benches applied it
- 2022 Sandhya Pant v. Deepak Ruwali & Ors.
- 2019 The State of Tamil Nadu & Ors. v. Elephant G. Rajendran & Ors. Etc.
- 2011 Mrs. Asha Sharma v. Chandigarh Administration and Ors.
- 2014 Jaipur Shahar Hindu Vikas Samiti v. State of Rajasthan & Ors.
Of those, 3 referred to · 1 mentioned
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