Maharaja Jagadindra Nath Roy Bahadur vs Rani Hemanta Kumari Debi, Bhaba Prasad ... on 28 June, 1911
It is well known that idol is a juristic person, and, as such, it can hold property and can sue or be sued in respect thereof, but it has to act through the Shebait. Justice Mukherjee in the Mukherjee's Hindu Law of Religious and Chartiable Trusts, has pointed out while referring to the case of Maharaja Jagadindra Nath Roy (supra) that the view underlying the aforesaid decision seems to be that "as an idol suffers from perpetual incapacity to engage itself in juridical acts, the natural personality of the Shebait supplies this legal deficiency in the idol, For all juridical purposes, it is the Shebait and Shebait alone that has the right to represent the idol and this creates what may be said to be a personality right in the Shebait to institute a suit in respect of the idol's property.