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Section 6 in Madras Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951 [Entire Act]
The State Of Madras By The Secretary, ... vs The Urumu Seshachalam Chettiar ... on 26 July, 1960
Though the above decision related to a charitable endowment we are of opinion that the same principle" will apply to a religious institution as well.
Ramanasramam By Its Secretary G. ... vs The Commissioner For Hindu Religious ... on 12 December, 1959
In Sri Ramanasramam by its Secretary, G. Sambasiva Rao and Ors. v. The Commissioner for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, Madras (1960) a M.L.J. 121 : I.L.R. (1960) Mad. 922. Ramaswami, J., and Anantanarayanan, J., as he then was, had to consider the question whether Mathrubootheswarar temple a component part of Ramanasramam at Thiruvannamalai is a temple as contemplated by Section 6 (17) of the 1951 Act. Ramaswami, J., who delivered the leading judgment after referring to three authoritative works on Hindu Religiuos Endowments namely (1) Pandit Pran Nath Saraswathi's Hindu Law of Endowments, (2) P. R. Ganapathi Ayyar's Hindu and Mohammadan Endowments and (3) B.K. Mukherjee's Hindu Law of Religious and Charitable Trust and some of the decisions including the one of Balakrishna Ayyar, J., referred to above, came to the conclusion that
The evidence in the instant case showed that this institution, is a composite institution and is in accordance with Sri Ramana Maharishi's universal outlook making his Asramam open to devotees of all religions--The contributions came also largely from non-Hindus--It stands to commonsense also that no exclusively Hindu shrine would be an appendage of a cosmopolitan Asramam, and which would have been totally inconsistent with Sri Ramana Maharishi's teachings and life.