Devasthan Inams
Abolition Act, 1969 . Section 5 of the Act provides for
abolition of certain Devasthan Inams together with their
incidents and makes Devasthan lands ... provides for "abolition of certain Devasthan inams
together with their incidents and 'Devasthan lands to be
liable to payment of land revenue-Notwithstanding
under sub-section (2). 5. Abolition of certain Devasthan inams together with their incidents and Devasthan land to be liable to payment of land revenue ... unalienated land shall apply to all Devasthan hinds. 6. Occupancy right in respect of Devasthan land.
- In the case of a Devasthan land, the person
village portion of a village, or land held under a Devasthan inam is Devasthan land as defined in Section 2(7) . All Devasthan inams (except ... includes grant of land. Such land held under the Devasthan inam would be Devasthan land. Therefore, there is no valid basis for excluding rights relating
passed an order declaring the properties to be
Devasthan land. The said order has become final.
Assuming that the order passed by the authority ... thus:
"(7) "Devasthan land" means a village,
portion of a village or land held under a
Devasthan inam"
Devasthan inam
granted
to the said land from payment of land revenue. Respondent No.1
held that the said land was not Devasthan Inam land, and that ... this Act, all personal
inam lands became liable to pay full land revenue like any other
private land. But Devasthan Inam lands, which were meant
extracts there is an entry that the lands are Devasthan lands and
therefore for the said transaction, sanction of Charity Commissioner is
required. The Petitioners ... Entry in 7/12 extracts of the subject land shows that the
lands are Devasthan lands and therefore unless permission
under section
lands are of three kinds, devasthan, inam and sarkari. The devasthan lands consist of four survey numbers measuring in all 13 acres 33 gunthas ... lands in addition to the devasthan. Assuming, as one well may under the circumstances, that the devasthan lands would suffice for the maintenance of this
favour of the Masjid regarding the suit land showed that the suit land was Devasthan Inam, Class III. The land was gifted to the Masjid ... exempt from payment of land revenue. In the present case, however, full land revenue, is payable in respect of this land. It is not clear
Annarao Deshpande as representative of the Deshpande family. The rest are devasthan lands held by the Deshpandes under a permanent tenancy ... other lands, and in the case of those lands also the numbers were not the same. But the position with regard to the devasthan lands
case was that the lands in suit were really Devasthan lands given to the defendants Devlis and Bhavnis for the services which they rendered ... alienate the lands. It was apparently common ground in the lower Court that if it was found that these lands were Devasthan property, the alienation
