Tangirala Chiranjivi, Being Minor By ... vs Raja Manikya Rao Rajya Lakshmamma And ... on 17 April, 1913
1. The District Munsif held that women were entitled to share in the profits of the mam lands attached to the office of mujawar of the suit mosque, as the evidence adduced in the case did not prove that women were prohibited from getting the duties of the office performed by deputies. The District Judge considered that the duties to be performed by the muawar were of such a religious and spiritual character that the office could not be held by a woman, and, therefore, that women and persons deriving their title from them could not have any rights to the lands. Both Courts rightly placed the onus on those who sought to exclude women, of proving that they were disqualified [vide Tanqirala Chiranjivi v. Rata Manikya Rao 25 Ind. Cas. 283 : 27 M. L.J. 179] and both found that a custom whereby women were excluded in this institution had not been proved.