inferred from the circumstances.
Use of the property for religious or public purposes for
sufficient length of time was a factor which would justify ... appellants, that
would not render it a public temple, so as to entitle a worship to
titular rights in respect thereof.
(viii) No right
metres of a liquor shop from any place of public worship or school or hospital or residential colony, clearly provides that if any place ... public worship, school, hospital, residential colony comes into existence subsequent to the establishment of shop or sub-shop, the provisions of this rule shall
city of Varanasi which is used as a place of public religious worship and dedicated to or for the benefit of or used ... right by the Hindus, as a place of public religious worship of the Jyotirlinga and includes all subordinate temples, shrines, subshrines and the ashthan
means place
by whatever designation
known used as a place of
public religious worship, and
dedicated to, or for the
benefit of, or used ... religious
worship and includes sub-
shrines, utsava mandapas,
tanks and other necessary
appurtenant structures and
land;
Explanation :- A place of
worship where the public
sadhu or saint is interned
and used as a place of public religious worship;
(2) "brindhavan" means a place established
or maintained ... guru, sadhu or saint
and used as a place of public religious worship, but
does not include samadhi"
After amendment is carried
view of the provisions under the Kerala Hindu Places of
Public Worship (Authorisation of Entry) Act, 1965 in the
case of a place of public ... said Act. Since Sabarimala is a place of
public worship situated in an area to which Part I of the
said Act extends, the competent
buildings set apart for public worship and
actually so used or used for allied purposes,
religious study centres;
(b) building exclusively used for educational
purposes ... duty
leviable under S. 66-
(a) places set apart for public worship and either
actually so used or used for no other purposes;
(b) buildings
respondent for violating the provisions of the Kerala Hindu
Places of Public Worship (Authorisation of Entry) Act, 1965 and
Kerala Hindu Places of Public Worship ... reliance on the
provisions contained in the Kerala Hindu Places of Public Worship
(Authorisation of Entry) Rules, 1965. The learned Standing
Counsel for the Guruvayur
Public Worship (Authorisation of Entry) Rules, 1965,
a drunken person shall not be entitled to enter or offer worship in
any place of public worship ... pathway which is requisite for obtaining access to the place of public
worship.
9. Having perused the periodical status reports of the Chief
Vigilance
under Rules 4 and 8 of the Kerala Hindu Places of Public
Worship (Authorisation of Entry) Rules, 1965, a Division Bench of this
Court held ... worship and
premises shall not be used for purposes unconnected with or arising
from the worship, usages and observations of such places of public
worship
