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The appellants, a trust operating a hall on land allotted by the Cochin Devaswom Board, challenged the Board's unilateral increase of the annual licence fee from Rs.227.25 to Rs.1,50,000 and the subsequent demand for arrears. The High Court upheld the fee increase but, beyond the scope of the writ …
The case concerns the management of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, which has been historically managed by the Travancore royal family. After the integration of princely states, a Covenant in 1949 and the Travancore-Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions Act, 1950 preserved the …
The appellant, a Malayala Brahmin, challenged the appointment of a non‑Brahmin as Santikaran (priest) of a Shiva temple administered by the Travancore Devaswom Board, claiming that the temple’s custom required a Brahmin priest and that the appointment violated his constitutional rights under …
