New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- The Supreme Court has constituted a 14-member interim committee headed by retired Allahabad high court judge justice Ashok Kumar to carry out the daily administration of Mathura's Banke Bihari temple. The bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi, in an order uploaded on Saturday, stayed an ordinance issued by the Uttar Pradesh government for creating a trust to take over the temple. The top court further requested the Allahabad high court to decide the validity of the ordinance preferably within a period of one year from the date the petitions are taken up for hearing. The order was passed on a bunch of petitions filed by the Banke Bihari temple management committee, among other stakeholders, which had challenged the May 26 ordinance and sought recall of an order passed by a separate bench of the top court on May 15 allowing the state to use temple funds for a corridor development project by acquiring five acres of land around the temple. The court modified the May 15 order and deleted the portions permitting the state to use temple funds from the judgment, noting that the top court committed the error of passing the order without hearing the Goswami community, who were stakeholders in the day-to-day affairs of the temple. The court, on Friday, indicated the broad contours of the order it intended to pass and had assured the Goswami community that the contentious part of the May 15 order shall be dropped. htc...