Calcutta in favour of a female domestic Hindu deity, who, by her shebait Mohini Dey, is the present appellant. On April 5, 1896, the same ... individuals by deed of sale sold and conveyed to themselves as shebaits of the deity certain land in the district of Hooghly. The main question
Nath Sanyah The idols have brought the suits represented by their alleged shebait, Panna Sundari Debi, who is no other person than the wife ... mortgages or purchases of immovable properties. She was to be the first shebait. She reserved the right of making rules for the devolution
Jagabandhu Roy (1896) I.L.R. 23 Cal. 536:
The succeeding shebaits form a continuing representation of the idol's property. To hold otherwise ... most anomalous result; for then it would follow...the eleventh shebait, it may be after a hundred years or more would still be in time
difference of opinion on the question whether it was open to the shebait or the Mohunt who himself alienated the endowed property to repudiate
plaint was originally filed by the plaintiff describing himself as shebait of an idol. Subsequently a petition for amendment of the plaint was filed
