Supreme Court of India

Sri Marthanda Varma (d) Thr. Lrs. & Anr. v. State of Kerala & Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 9 S.C.R. 974
Bench Uday Umesh Lalit and Indu Malhotra JJ.
Decided 13 July 2020

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Travancore-Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions Act, 1 950 – Chapter III of Part-I, Sections 18 to 23 – Constitu tion of India – Arts. 363 and 366 (22) – Sree Padmanabhaswamy Templ e – Shebaitship or the managership of the temple – Ther e are many versions as regard to the origin and how the temple was set up, however, every version accepts that the King of Trava ncore had a role in the administration of the temple – After a major f ire incident occurred in the year 1686, it was the king who re-cons tructed the temple and installed a new idol and took full control of the temple – Since then

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