Section 21 in The Orissa Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1951
21. Enforcement of service or charity in certain cases.
(1)Where a specific endowment attached to a math or temple consists merely of a charge on property and there if failure in the due performance of the service or charity, the trustee of the math or temple concerned may require the person in possession of the property on which the endowment is a charge to pay the expenses incurred or likely to be incurred in causing the service or charity to be performed otherwise. In default of such person making payment as required, Assistant Commissioner may, on the application of the trustee and after giving the person in possession a reasonable opportunity of stating his objections in regard thereto, by order, determine the amount payable to the trustee.(2)Where the person in possession of the property on which the endowment is a charge is not the person responsible in law for the performance of the service or charity and any amount is paid by or recovered from the person in possession, the Assistant Commissioner may, on the application of the person in possession and after giving the person responsible in law a reasonable opportunity of stating his objections in regard thereto, by order, require the person responsible in law to pay to the person in possession the amount so paid or recovered.(3)Against an order of the Assistant Commissioner under Sub-section (1) or Sub-section (2), the trustee or the person affected may, within one month of the date of the receipt of the order by him, appeal to the Commissioner who may modify or cancel the same.(4)On application by the trustee to the Collector of the district in which the property referred to in Sub-section (1) is situated, or an application by the person in possession to the Collector of the district in which is situated any property of the person responsible in law, as the case may be, the Collector shall recover from the person in possession, or the person responsible in law, as the case may be, the amount specified in the order of the Assistant Commissioner as modified by the order of the Commissioner, if any, and the expenses of such recovery, as if they were arrears of land revenue, and pay to the trustee or, as the case may be, to the person in possession, the amount due to him.
