these words:
"Religious endowments are either public or
private. In a public endowment the dedication
is for the use or benefit of the public ... burden lay on the Charity
Commissioner to prove that the endowment was a public endow-
ment and not a private one and that burden
there by Dinabandhu were made for public benefit to provide a public temple and a public deity for public worship in the locality ... built and the endowment created with public money and with a deity consecrated to public benefit and installed for public worship. The fact that
endowments are regarded as a public trust".
When once it is understood that the true beneficiaries of
religious endowments are not the idols ... from the evidence as to public user
which is all one way that the temples and their endowment
were public religious trusts
public are allowed to
worship by itself would not make an endowment public unless
it is proved that the members of the public ... Hindu Law
(11th edition)
'Religious endowments are either public or
private. In a public endowment the dedication is
for the use or benefit
income of
the endowment as being for charitable and religious
purposes, this would make the endowment a public one. What
a person does with ... sided. There is
not one circumstance to show that the endowment was public
endowment, and this being the case, we do not see any
reasons
held that here was abundant evidence to show that the endowment was a public endowment. The third decision cited by Mr. Mitter is also ... special festive occasions, the public came to the temple. Does this necessarily mean that the endowment is a public one or that it enures wholly
also a circumstance which suggests that it was not a public endowment. The defendants' evidence was not properly considered by the court below ... public in the present case left no room for doubt that the intention of the founders was that the temple should be a public endowment
made between the public endowment and the private endowment. The private endowments are established primarily, if not solely, for the spiritual benefit and worship ... account of maladministration of the Endowment properties, is not available. But in the case of a public endowment, the persons interested in the worship
Ankit Mishra & Anr. vs Santosh Sharma & Ors. on 6 May, 2024
Author: C
these words:
"Religious endowments are either public or private. In a public endowment the dedication is for the use or benefit of the public ... certain religious persuasion would not make it a private endowment. The essence of a public endowment consists in its being dedicated to the public
