THAKURJI SHRIJI Vs. JAGANNATH DAS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a revision petition filed on behalf of the plaintiffs against an order of the Munsif at Behror dated the 3rd of May 1949, by which he has directed both the plain-tiffs to file separate suits against the defendant.

(2.) THERE are two temples of Thakurji Sriji one at Kherli and the other at Narbera. The defendant Jagannath Das is the priest of both the temples and he looks after their Puja. The Administration of both the temples is at present vasted in the Department Court of the Wards. This suit has been brought by the Department of the Court of Wards, on behalf of both the idols of Thakurji Sriji against the defendant who is a priest of both of them for a declaration that the agricultural lands entered in the Revenue papers in the name of the defendant Jagannath Das belonged to the plaintiffs