Section 5
No person, being Hindu, who enters a Hindu temple of offers or participates in worship in any such temple shall by reason only of such entry, worship or participation be deemed to have committed any actionable wrong or offence or be sued or prosecuted therefor.
5. No person, being Hindu, who enters a Hindu temple of offers or participates in worship in any such temple shall by reason only of such entry, worship or participation be deemed to have committed any actionable wrong or offence or be sued or prosecuted therefor.
Declaration of right to offer worship in temple
Courts not to recognize untouchability
Worship in temples not to be actionable
Bar to suits and proceedings Contray to rights declared by the Act 6. (1) No Civil Court shall entertain or continue any suit or proceeding or shall pass any decree or order or execute wholly or partially any decree or order, it the claim involved in such suit or proceeding or if the passing of such decree or order or if such execution would in any way be contrary to the rights herein by this Act declared. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub -section (1) every suit pending at the commencement of this Act, whether in the court of the first instance, appeal or revision, for damages, injunction or declaration or for any other relief on the ground that entry or worship or participation, in worship by a person of the depressed classes in a Hindu temple is against any law, custom usage or practice or for the exclusion of such classes from such entry, worship or participation, shall be and is hereby abated and every injunction, whether in any interlocutory proceeding or otherwise issued or granted in any such suit or proceeding shall likewise be and is hereby discharged any provision in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, notwithstanding. Effect of provisions incosistent with other enactments 7. The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding naything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force. Power to make rules 8. The State Government may make rules for the carrying out of the purposes of this Act.
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