Supreme Court of India

K. Kumara Gupta v. Sri Markendaya and Sri Omkareswara Swamy Temple & Ors

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Reported as [2022] 8 S.C.R. 968
Bench M. R. Shah and B. V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 18 February 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, the impugned judgment and order passed by the Division Bench of the High Court is unsustainable and deserves to be quashed and set aside and is accordingly quashed and set aside.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Auction: Auction conducted on 26.06.1998 by the Executi ve Officer of the Temple Trust following due procedure under the provisions of the Endowments Act 1987 – Appellant was the highe st bidder – After confirming the sale in favour of the appell ant by the Commissioner, the appellant deposited the balance a mount – Thereafter, sale deed was held confirmed and executed in the year 1998 – On challenge before High Court, re-auction of the prop erty was ordered after a period of more than 23 years so lely on the basis of the offer made by one JK in the year 1998 an d the offer made by one LKR

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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