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1 - 10 of 11 (0.37 seconds)Vythilinga Pandara Sannadhi And Ors. vs Somasundara Mudaliar And Ors. on 26 October, 1893
Kattalai or special grant.--Before I close this chapter one thing
requires to be noticed and that is a special grant for religious
services in a temple which is in vogue in Southern India and is
known by the name of Kattalai. As Muttusami Aiyyar, J.
explained in Vythilinga v. Somasundara, in ordinary parlance,
the term Kattalai as applied to temple means endowments and
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signifies a special endowment for certain specific service or
religious charity in the temple. Ardajama Kattalai or endowment
for midnight service is an instance of the former and Annadan
Kattalai or an endowment for distributing food to the poor is an
example of the latter. In this sense the word Kattalai is used in
contradistinction to the endowment designed generally for the
upkeep and maintenance of the temple. Persons who endow
properties for kattalais are entitled to appoint special trustees to
administer them, and the general trustees of the institution have
no right to dispossess them. And if under the terms of the grant,
the special trustee has to utilise the income for specified services
in the temple, the general trustee has the right, as the person in
charge generally of the temple, to require the special trustee to
hand over the income to him. But the special trustee is, in
respect of the management of the kattalai properties, under the
same obligations as a trustee, and an alienation by him of those
properties would be void, unless it is for necessity or benefit. In
the case of some important temples, the sources of the income
are classified into distinct endowments according to their
importance. Each endowment is placed under a separate trustee
and specific items of expenditure are assigned to it as legitimate
charges to be paid therefrom. Each of such endowments is called
also a Kattalai and the trustee who administers it is called the
Kattlaigar or stanik of the particular Kattalai.
The Right to Information Act, 2005
Mahant Ram Saroop Dasji vs S. P. Sahi, Special Officer-In-Charge ... on 15 April, 1959
8.8 The learned Government Advocate would rely on the Judgment of the
Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in Ram Saroop Dasji Vs. S.P. Sahi and Others4
to submit that the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India has, in the said case, laid
down the law relating to the character of the Kattalai. It has been held that the
purpose of the charity should be considered to determine whether it is private or
public in nature. Once it is identified as a public religious charity, it becomes a
religious endowment.
The Commissioner Hr & Ce Administration ... vs C.V. Sudharsan And Another on 18 April, 2000
The learned Government Advocate would then rely on the
Division Bench Judgment of this Court in the Commissioner, HR & CE
Administration Department, Nungambakkam, and Others Vs. C.V. Sudharsan
and Others5 to contend that the question to be examined is whether there is a
divestiture of ownership. If the beneficiaries of the charities are the public at
large, making them unascertainable, the Kattalai should be considered a public
Kattalai.
The Fit Person vs L.S.Dilli Babu on 11 September, 2020
8.12 The learned Government Advocate would also rely on the judgment
in Fit Person Vs. L.S. Dilli Babu (CRP (NPD) No. 3501 of 2011), specifically
referring to paragraph No. 9, where this Court disallowed the permission to sell
the property and held that the property must be held for the original purposes for
which it is dedicated.
Sri-La-Sri Shanmuga Desiga ... vs The State Of Madras Represented By ... on 22 December, 1993
9.4 Once the Kattalai is a public religious endowment, originally, the
Division Bench of this Court in Sri-la-Sri Kailai Subramania Desiga
Gnanasambanda Pandara Sannathi, Sole and Hereditary Trustee of the
Rajan Kattalai attached to Thiyagarajaswami Devasthanam and another Vs.
The State of Madras and Others10, defined the position as follows:-
Vythilinga Pandara Sannadhi vs G. Ranganadha Mudaliar And Ors. on 11 September, 1933
“48. It was held by a Division Bench of this Court in
Vythilinga Pandara Sannathi v. G. Ranganatha Mudaliar
{MANU/TN/0132/1933 : AIR 1934 Mad. 126} that the
definition of the expression "religious endowments" is wide
enough to cover 'Kattalais' also.
Palanivelayutham Pillai & Ors vs Ramachandran & Ors on 9 May, 2000
In Palanivelayuthampillai and
others v. Ramachandran and others {2001 (1) TLNJ 57 SC}, the
Supreme Court extracted the observations of Dr. Mukherjea
about "Kattalai Grants in South India" in his treatise on "The
Hindu Law of Religious and Charitable Trusts". It will be useful
to extract the same.