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1954 - In The Commissioner Hindu Religious Endowments, Madras v. Sri Lakshmindra Thirtha Swamiar of Sri Shirur Mutt reported in AIR 1954 SC 282 this Court observed that there are well known religions in India like Buddhism and Jainism which do not believe in God, in any Intelligent First Cause.
Case Ruling Notes State of Madras v. Champakam Dorairajan AIR 1951 SC 226 [1] [2] [3] Court ruled that caste-bass per Communal Award violate Article 15(1) of the constitution. Led to the introduction of the First Amendment of the constitution, which invalidated the judgment. M. R. Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR 1963 SC 649 [4]
Kesavananda Bharati (9 December 1940 – 6 September 2020) was an Indian Hindu monk who served as the Shankaracharya (head) of Edneer Mutt, a Hindu monastery in Kasaragod district, Kerala, India from 1961 until his death. [1] [2] He was the petitioner in Kesavananda Bharati v.
The enactment and adoption of the Indian Evidence Act was a path-breaking judicial measure introduced in India, which changed the entire system of concepts pertaining to admissibility of evidences in the Indian courts of law.
Kesavananda Bharati (center) at the Kumbh Mela in February 2013.. In February 1970 Swami Kesavananda Bharati, senior pontiff and head of the Hindu monastery Edneer Matha in Edneer, Kasaragod District, Kerala, challenged the Kerala government's attempts, under two land reform acts, to impose restrictions on the management of its property.
On 20 July 1969, Cooper who was one of the shareholders in Central Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India and Bank of India filed petition in Supreme Court of India challenging the ordinance and claiming violation of their rights under Article 14, Article 19 and Article 31 of Indian Constitution. [9] [10] [11] [12]
The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had five judges and was headed by Chief Justice A.N. Ray.The Bench interpreted the word `propagate' used in Article 25(1) of the Constitution as `defined' in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary - "to spread from person to person, or from place to place, to disseminate, diffuse (a statement, belief, practice etc.)" and in the Century Dictionary (which is an ...
A matha (/mʌt/; Sanskrit: मठ, maṭha), also written as math, muth, mutth, mutt, or mut, is a Sanskrit word that means 'institute or college', and it also refers to a monastery in Hinduism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An alternative term for such a monastery is adheenam . [ 3 ]