No reprieve to ISKCON

Karnataka High Court today declined to stay its order that the entire property of Bangalore's International Society for Krishna Consciousness belonged to ISKCON, Mumbai.

A division bench comprising Justices Nagamohan Das and Arali Nagaraj while refusing to stay their yesterday's ruling, however, restrained ISKCON, Mumbai, from replacing President, office-bearers and other functionaries of ISKCON Bangalore, for six weeks.

The court also ordered that the employees and devotees of ISKCON, Bangalore, serving the temple, also should not be dislodged from their services.

The court stated that the 'Akshaya Patra Trust' and other trusts which functioned from Hare Krishna Hill where ISKCON temple has been built, are not party to the case and should function on their own.

 

The court on a petition filed by ISKCON Mumbai had ruled yesterday that ISKCON Bangalore had no legal existence and it belonged to ISKCON, Mumbai.