Rajasthan High Court decision puts land of all temple in govt hands; SC to decide
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1 min readSep 18, 2016
For ages, Hindu temple land vests in its principal deity which has been recognized as a legal entity by the courts. Even in Ayodhya-Ramjanambhoomi dispute case, the Allahabad high court had recognized the right of Ram Lalla despite granting the minor deity ownership of one-third of the 2.7 acres of disputed site.
But the Rajasthan high court has upturned the norms governing upkeep and administration of temples by ruling that deities being minors could not cultivate land and hence temple land should vest in the state government. The HC order has mainly hit the pujaris hard as they have been for generations maintaining the temples and their families through income from cultivation of temple land.
