NEW DELHI: On a long standing litigation between Mumbai and Bengaluru factions of Iskcon over control of Bengaluru temple, Supreme Court had kept the verdict reserved for more than a year and gave judgment favouring the Bengaluru branch in May just prior to the retirement of presiding judge Justice A S Oka. The bench of Justices Oka and A G Masih had set aside Karnataka High Court's detailed judgment in May 2011 giving control of the Bengaluru temple to the Mumbai branch. High Court had quashed the trial court decree of April 2009 which was in favour of the Bengaluru faction. After 14 years of the HC verdict and six months of Supreme Court judgment, pronounced a week before Justice Oka's retirement, the parties are now almost back to square one as a bench of Justices J K Maheshwari a

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