WP No.6-4344 of 2009
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA
CIRCUIT BENCH AT DHARWAD
DATED THIS THE 26TH DAY OF T'
BEFORE in HTKHKH
THE I-i0N'BLE DR.JUSTICE 1§;;§i_:A;,;T7_flAj,%gTd5
WRIT PETITION N0.6f¥3ff14/a2Oh(:3'9A. (KL£é.--?lR}3S'j H
BETWEEN: T H A V.
Sri Guru Abhinava B1'ah~ma3.'ianda--«
Mahaswamigalu, Sri Gumde'2ra:':'» ' H_ 2 ,
Brahammananda Ashra,11j'et,VSauns19ii, ..
Talukz Kundagol; Distj .
Represented Pqweri pf Atfiorliej/*;"*""
SriBasaVaraj,_««..V _
S/0 Ma11app.a*'Ja}ake.' .. ...PETITIONER
(By Sri;Sureeh';'F':;Hb;d'e'dHeigaddi, Advocate)
A N D : H H H
1. T}:{e'VSt3.te of 'K-aznaetaka,
- AvBy.itl§*Pr"ineipal Secretary,
' 'Revenueljepartment,
% M .S.vvBfu1'_Idifng.,~' Banga10re--560 001.
2. 'The
Taiuk; Khundagol,
.. VDist1'~'ic't: Dharwad. ...RESPONDENTS
(By’S’i’r1t. K.Vidyavathi, Add}. Govt, Advocate)
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This writ petition is filed under Articles 226 227
of the Constitution of India praying to direct the”-,2nd
respondent to consider the application;xciiated
30.05.2009 produced at Annexure-D. ”
This writ petition coming on for ordr.ers.Vt11is _day’,”
the Court made the following: ‘ V’ *
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The petitioner vis,befoére”‘ th:isllCourtllp’ray*ing for a
writ of mandamus for consider the
application and pass
orders in V
the petitioner submits that
Shri Guru”..Braham’1:r1an’anda Ashrarna is a religious
The saidiashram is running educational and
_financialainsti_tutions in various places. The ashram has
at Rayapur, Saunshi, T abakadnonnali
V’~».{Swarna_igiri), Adarkatti, Teradal, Permanaridwadi,
it il’liR’abdl1aVi, Shimr. The institution propagates religious,
social, cultural and other activities for the benefit of the
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devotees. Shri Gurusiddeshwaraswamy was
mathadhipati and head of the institution died on
06.07.2006. On 24.07.2007, the day
Siddeshwara Swami’s punyathithi, the 7.
Guru Abhinava Brahamrnananda….M_ahasixfaniigaitlv’_§t7a%: H.
appointed as mathadhipati. Therefore,
Annexure–D was submitted_V:VL:”‘t.o ” it
Tahsildar to incorporate I of “the..~i§present
mathadhipati in the reference to
the land beaxjitig /’1ij’V1~i:i.i’rI1eas’t:ring 2 acres 20
of Khundagol taluk.
But, the«respioiiderit»_i\Ioi:i2=Tahsi1dar has not passed any
orderson the._:app.iicatioi’i. Therefore, he submits that a
‘wri”t:*of as’ mus issued.
i’ ‘further submitted that the petitioner had
ii”»-~.___”-filed writ~ petition in W.P.No.310-48/2008 for identicai
as against the Tahsildar of Raibag District,
_HBe1gaum, which petition was disposed of directing the
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Tahsildar to consider the petitioner’s request to enter
his name in the record of rights with referen:Ce_i’~ttQ
Sy.No.126 and 126/1 ofParamar1dawadi viiieget’ff’-it;j;.
4. It is pertinent to rnentiori that” ‘*
Braharnmananda Ashram is an
the institution finds a
Whenever there is a of the
ashram it does not name of the
Mathadhipati int__?_1e teeerei; of rights-. «set the petitioner
has made.iaj5rei€jL:3.est”-.to–.iirespendent No.2–Tahsi1dar to
incorporate the record of rights with
reference the mentioned above. It is the duty of
Norf2″to–«’consider the appiication and pass
_ appr-‘op1iiate”‘o_rders in accordance with law.
A tview of the above, the writ petition is
dispxoseid; of with a direction to the 2113 respondent to
c:,Qn’sider the petitioner’S entation at Ar1nexure–D,,
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submitted on 30.05.2009, in the light of the observation
made above and in accordance with law witljxinifitwc
months from the date of receipt of this order_.,1:– 0 I
Granted three weeks time» ._tQ 0’ ocfj
appearance by the Additional 10-0
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