ISKCON vs ISKCON Court Case Update 10 02 26

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PADA has developed a new fan. She is right, the robes are out living the vows. I was telling her about Gonorrhea Pada, the newly re-annointed messiah of the jagat, just in time for children to start to drink his foot bath water, and she was not too surprised. It is what they do -- and all sorts of people already know it. I am not a member of substack so I have not reviewed her writings.

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ISKCON India’s challenge to a Supreme Court ruling on ownership of the Bengaluru Hare Krishna temple remains before the court after it decided to hear a review petition, a development India’s Communications Director Yudhistir Govinda Dasa called a “significant milestone.”

LawBeat reports that the court issued notice in December 2025 on the petition challenging its May 16, 2025 judgment, which recognized the Bengaluru society as the temple’s lawful owner. On September 28, 2026, the court was asked to schedule the matter for hearing.

According to an ISKCON India press release cited by LawBeat, the petitioners submitted more than 6,000 pages of material supporting allegations of fraud, forgery, and manipulation of public records. Those allegations remain contested.

The review provides an opportunity for ISKCON India to have its challenge heard, though the May 2025 judgment has not been reversed.

LAWBEAT

ISKCON Temple Battle: Supreme Court Urged To List Review Plea in 25-Year Bengaluru–Mumbai Feud Major Turn in ISKCON Feud: SC Urged To List Review Petition Concerning Bengaluru Temple Ownership Case By - Aishwarya Iyer 

28 Sept 2026 12:08 AM Supreme Court had admitted ISKCON India’s review petition and revived the decades-old dispute over control of the Bengaluru Hare Krishna temple after issuing notice to the rival faction The Supreme Court was today urged to hear the long-running dispute over control of the iconic Hare Krishna temple in Bengaluru, after it had admitted a review petition last year challenging the Court’s May 16, 2025 verdict that had recognised the Bengaluru society as the lawful owner. 

Senior Advocate Shyam Divan mentioned the case on behalf of ISKCON Bengaluru concerning the Court’s May 16, 2025 verdict that had recognised the Bengaluru society as the lawful owner. Also Read - PIL Not Maintainable To Challenge Tender Based On Rival Bidders’ Claims: Supreme Court "We are seeking listing..," Divan told a CJI Surya Kant led bench. "Recently I was watching a video clip by an ISKCON member. It was so inspiring ...but in reality, you are just fighting with each other," CJI Kant told Divan. 

In December 2025 the Bench of Justices MM Sundresh, Prashant Kumar Mishra and Satish Chandra Sharma had issued notice and agreed to hear the review plea along with several connected petitions. 

Also Read - "Better To Hand All Investigations To CBI, Disband You": Supreme Court Raps UP Police Over FIR Discrepancies The Court had sought a response from the Bengaluru faction of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and other parties involved in the decades-old conflict. 

The dispute, which has spanned more than 25 years, centres on competing claims by the Mumbai-registered ISKCON (1971) and the Bengaluru society over ownership and control of the temple and related assets. The Supreme Court’s May 16 ruling had overturned a 2011 Karnataka High Court decision that favoured the Mumbai faction, holding instead that the property was validly allotted to ISKCON Bengaluru, an independent society registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act. 

Also Read - Supreme Court Upholds Delhi HC Order In Ilaiyaraaja vs Saregama Copyright Case The revival of the battle follows a split verdict delivered on October 28 by a two-judge bench hearing ISKCON India’s initial review plea. Justice JK Maheshwari found merit in the Mumbai faction’s contention and called for an open-court hearing with responses from the Bengaluru society. Justice AG Masih, however, dismissed the review petitions, holding that no error apparent on the face of the record justified reconsideration of the May 16 judgment. 

The matter was then referred to the Chief Justice of India, who constituted the present three-judge bench. Also Read - Former MP Subhashini Ali Moves Supreme Court To Intervene In Legislative Privileges Case According to a press release issued by ISKCON India, the petitioners placed before the Court over 6,000 pages of material, including judicial depositions, correspondence involving Madhu Pandit Dasa in his capacity as the then general secretary of ISKCON India, and documents that the Mumbai faction alleges show “systematic fraud, forgery and manipulation of public records” by individuals associated with the Bengaluru society. 

Yudhistir Govinda Das, ISKCON India’s Director of Communications, said the Court’s decision to reopen the case marks a “significant milestone” and expressed hope that a full hearing will expose what the faction claims were efforts to “usurp the assets” of the institution, including the Bengaluru temple and the Akshaya Patra programme. 

The May 16 ruling had held that the trial court’s 2009 decree in favour of ISKCON Bengaluru was justified, noting that the Bangalore Development Authority had executed the sale deed directly in favour of the Bengaluru society. The Court had found no evidence to support ISKCON Mumbai’s claim of ownership and concluded that alleged manipulations by individuals associated with the Bengaluru faction were irrelevant to deciding title over the Schedule A property. 

The Karnataka High Court had earlier reversed the trial court’s decree and upheld ISKCON Mumbai’s counterclaim, effectively transferring control of the temple to the Mumbai faction. ISKCON Bengaluru challenged that order before the Supreme Court in June 2011. Both societies share similar names and spiritual missions, but have asserted independent legal identities. While ISKCON Bengaluru claims decades of autonomous management of the temple, the Mumbai faction maintains that the Bengaluru society is merely its branch functioning under the national Societies Registration Act, 1860 and the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950. Mentioning Date: September 28, 2026 Bench: CJI Kant, Justice Bagchi and Justice Mohana

https://lawbeat.in/supreme-court-judgments/pil-not-maintainable-to-challenge-tender-based-on-rival-bidders-claims-supreme-court-1637454

PADA: And what happens if all of ISKCON is seized by the government, dismantled, and referred to the CBI as some have suggested is the solution? It seems to me that ISKCON proving that ISKCON is fraudulent is not good for any ISKCON, including Bombay. 

GBC fanatic Basu Ghosh himself said one possible outcome of all these lawsuits is -- the Government will seize ALL the properties and take over ALL the buildings, which they have done in other Maths and temples.  

This could trigger a government take over, saying that ISKCON is a giant illegal fraud, and cannot legally manage its affairs, and the court could appoint their own people to manage the property. The only good news is that much of Madhu Pandit's operation is going on under the HKM and Akshaya Patra flag, and those programs will not be included [hopefully]. But this shows how desperate the GBC is, they cannot win on siddhanta points, so they have to hire lawyers to harass the ritviks. 

But this seems to be a problem in India generally. There are all kinds of swamis, yogis, avatars and flakey incarnations of Durga like Radhe Ma, and overall the people there cannot distinguish the real from the false as a society and group effort over there. All sorts of people from India regularly write complaints to PADA that I am not accepting their homosexual and pedophile samadhi / acharya's process, and I am not prostrating myself to Gonorrhea Pada because he dresses up in orange. Yep PADA does not worship oral sex with boys acharyas in samadhis, so he must be a mleccha.   

Madhu Pandit told me the same basic thing, he cannot really bring out the criminal aspect of the GBC because the government might seize the whole thing. But it also looks like -- unless he brings out the big guns arguments, he will be under fire forever. I personally could not live like that, I would just take out the atomic weapons and drop them, and end this one way or other.

I was recently listening to a big swami over there and he was saying there is no such thing as Krishna, you fools made up a Krishna in your mind. OK wait, doesn't Krishna make up us in His mind -- is really what happens? But many of the India sheeple there don't understand these simple points i.e. YOU are an expansion of Krishna, HE is not an expansion of you, but they cannot even figure that much out?

So this looks like a do or die situation for the GBC. They would rather risk sinking the whole of ISKCON, than allow the ritviks the head of a pin of property. Same as the Kauravas would not allow the Pandavas the same size land. But personally I am not too worried about anything. 

The courts there evidently do not understand that the Gonorrhea Pada's program is not valid, but there are plenty of people now who do understand that, even over there, and they will continue to worship Srila Prabhupada and Krishna with or without a building. The buildings are not the real essence of the Prabhupadanuga process, it is the people, and we have plenty of them now and it is growing, and will grow regardless. 

But personally, If I was Madhu Pandit, I would beg the court to know why Gonorrhea Pada's sampradaya has any position to demand any action from the courts? Why is the court even hearing any claims from the illicit sex with men, women and children acharyas program, which is a hazard to children? 

Anyway, lets see how it turns out, but be advised, court cases in India are notoriously costly and slow, and none of us seniors might still be alive when a ruling comes out. So I am not holding my breath, hee hee. Overall this is a good sign, they are tossing crap at the wall and hoping it sticks at this point, they are in desperation mode. They cannot win in the court of devotee opinion, and the courts are all they have left.

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