Upon receiving notice the text of which was that certain land of petitioner Math is liable to be declared as surplus, objections were filed ... that Math Babu Kina Ram is a Math of Aghorepeeth sect. It is further clear rather brooks no dispute that beneficiaries of this Math
public purpose. The land use of most of the lands under Notification and Declaration has been shown as reserved for Maths and Ashrams ... tribes. There are government notifications exempting their land from acquisition and even their applications for releasing their land under Section
Thereafter, the accused persons went to the nearby Nelia Bandha land of the Math and continued to abuse the Math's Mohant ... litigating terms with the Mohant of the Math over a plot of land and deceased Bhima and Ramahari Bhuyan (P.W. 1) and Kalu Bhuyan
have held that they are the Inamdars and suit lands are Inam lands of Niyamatullah Shah Dargah. He argued that judgments of both the Courts ... raised by the defendants. In case of Pushpagiri Math (supra) it was held that the land was granted to the Inamdar in order to render
adjacent land, all put together bearing Municipal No. 10-7-616/16 situate at Varni - Mosra road, Nizamabad, was owned by the math ... determination as under:
(i) Whetherthe land, which was leased out to the first respondent by the petitioners' math does come under definition
follows:
Admittedly Sri Vanamamalai Jeer Math of Nanguneri village is the owner of vast extent of forest lands. Out of the said lands, an area
Jitendra Nath Biswas v. Empire of India & Ceylone Tea Co. , Pushpagiri Math v. Kopparaju Veerabhadra Rao and Dhruv Green Field Ltd. v. Hukam Singh ... barred whereas, in Pushpagiri Math 's case (above), jurisdiction of Civil Court to declare title of the Inam land was held to be excluded
The Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987
ANDHRA PRADESH
India
tenant. Provision is also made to enable the tenant to
purchase the land in his occupation, subject to certain
conditions.
8) Section 9 gives ... superstructure to purchase such part or extent of the land, be
reasonably required for his enjoyment. Since we are
concerned about the Amended Act , there
read as under:
"(22) 'religious institution' means a math, temple
or specific endowment and includes a Brindavan,
Samadhi or any other institution ... includes sub-shrines,
utsava mantapas, tanks and other necessary
appurtenant structures and land;"
[Emphasis supplied]
10. Section 77 of the Act provides
