Assessing Officer found that the trust was mainly engaged in religious activities. The assessee had claimed that, it had incorporated the objects of religious purposes ... utility. Therefore, the contention of the Department that the expenditure on religious activities could not be given exemption cannot be accepted particularly in the context
permitting the petitioner and his followers to perform Pooja and other religious activities as illegal. He also sought for declaration that 'Belum Caves ... writ petitions that the petitioner has a religious right to perform 'poojas' and other religious activities in 'Belum Caves
that the predominant activity of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams is the religious activity concerned with Hindu religion. It is no doubt true that there ... predominant job of the
writ petitioner is concerned, it is only religious activity. The main contention which had been argued elaborately is on the aspect
participating in Kumbhabhisekam. On
the contrary, having been entrusted with the religious activities, it was
quite natural for plaintiff No.2 to participate in Kumbhabhisekam ... Thrikala pooja, Kumbhabisekam, Chaturmasa Vrata and
Mudradharana are part of religious and dharmic activities which are
entrusted to plaintiff No.2. As rightly pleaded
view of Art. 26. The religious denominations will be disabled from carrying on their religious activities at Tirumala, if the proposed acquisitions are allowed ... unless the acquisition of property of a religious denomination is such as to totally deprive that religious denomination of its right to own and acquire
Islam religion and is a minority community which maintains its own religious institutions.
2. The case of the petitioner is that the Society entered into ... year 1967 for the purpose of carrying on religious activities. Out of this land, the land bearing S. Nos. 294 to 300 was notified
making it clear that he shall confine himself to religious activities and that the officer of the Endowments Department will be continued to look after ... management of the Mutt and the petitioner was confined to mere religious activities, the petitioner filed W.P.No.4326 of 2002 seeking a writ
business activity but running of canteen has no nexus nor is it incidental to the main activity and that being the business activity where food ... institution, is not of business activity, but if the secondary activity has the elements of commerce or trading activity, then in order to claim exemption
have grown up to such tremendous proportions that apart from normal religious activities it has undertaken several economic activities, and supplies material services ... hotel for catering foodstuffs. If the department is carrying on predominantly religious activity, the fact that some of its activities partake of a character
purposes which are pious in nature i.e., to support the religious activities of the Devasthanam. Because of this controversy the proceedings under Section
