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WORLD  High Court Grants Injunction Against ISKCON-Mumbai FROM THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS INDIA, Apr 29 (VNN) — Bangalore, April 19: The High Court of Karnataka, on Friday, ruled that the Bangalore unit of the International society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is a separate and independent legal entity. Juistice A M Farooq, while allowing an appeal by the Bangalore unit, granted an injunction against the Mumbai unit of the ISKCON. Friday's injunction orders prevent the Mumbai unit from interfering in the administration or enjoyment of properties or taking possession of moveable or immovable properties that belong to the Bangalore unit of the ISKCON. The judge ruled that the Bangalore unit, headed by Madhu Pandit Dasa, had a right to maintain and administer its properties. ISKCON, Bangalore had submitted that since it's inception in 1978, it had built a temple and had a corpus of Rs 39 crore as of date. Justice Farooq, in his ruling on Friday, set aside the trail court's order vacating maintenance of status quo with respect to the Bangalore unit's properties. ISKCON-Bangalore had moved the High Court after the XXVII Additional City Civil Judge, A P Murari dismissed an interim application filed by ISKCON-Bangalore, seeking an injunction against ISKCON-Mumbai in interfering in its day-to-day activities and administration. The interim application, which was dismissed on Feb 6, also sought a Court order to al-low ISKCON-Bangalore to enjoy its properties in Bangalore and Mysore without interference from the Mumbai unit. The City Civil Judge had also discharged an ex-parte order passed on October 16, 2001 asking the parties to the suit to maintain status quo in the mat-ter. ISKCON-Bangalore had taken ISKCON Mumbai, Bhima Dasa, Gopalakrishna Goswami (of ISKCON Mumbai), Jayapataka Swami, Vinay Kairo, Ashok Kumar Gupta, B Kiran, Sudhir Chaitanya Dasa (of ISKCON Bangalore), Sarva Aishwarya Dasa (of ISKCON Coimbatore), Registrar of Societies and the City Police Commissioner to court. Costs of Rs 3,000 had been imposed by the City Civil Court on ISKCON Bangalore during the course of its earlier order. Contact VNN about this story  Send this story to a friend
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