New Delhi: To stop the fence from eating grass, the Supreme Court has decided that the priests, who commit a daily ritual in a temple, cannot become landowners given to the gods and also stop the government to become the owner of the asset by changing the name of the priest with the area collector.
This decision was given by the judicial bench Hemtta Gupta and S s appearing for the country, advocate Saurabh Mishra argued that the executive instruction was issued to remove the names of ‘Pujari’ (Imam) from revenue records to protect the quelt properties of those who were invalid by them.
Appearing for the Association of Priests, Advocates Divyakant Lahoti submitted that ‘Pujaris’ has been given the right of ‘Bhumiswami (ownership)’, rights that cannot be taken by executive instructions.
Write a verdict for benches and considering various SC decisions in a similar problem, Judge Gupta said, “taking into account the past precedents, and the fact that under the Gwalior Law, Pujari has been given the right to manage the temple property, it is clear that it does not lift it to the status The tenant in the cultivation …
because the priest cannot be treated as Bhumiswami, they do not have the right to be protected under the provisions of the code.
“SC said in the ownership column, the name of the god alone must be mentioned, because God becomes a juristical person is the owner of the land.
“Land work is also by the gods carried out by servants or managers on behalf of gods.
Therefore, the name of the manager or priest is not required to be mentioned in the column of the invaders too,” he ruled and said that the state government did not make mistakes in issuing executive instructions for Removing the priests as god owners belonging to Dewa.
At the same time, the Supreme Court did not approve the country’s decision to replace the names of Imam with collectors as the owner of the Temple land in the god.
“We find that the name of the collector as a manager cannot be recorded in connection with the property given in the god because the collector cannot be a manager of all temples except that is a temple given to the country,” he said.