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Ramesh Jethalal Morbia and Anr. v. Jain Jagruti Centre Central Board Charitable Trust and Ors.

Bombay HC4 Feb 2025WP/4282/2024

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What is this about?

Maharashtra Public Trust Act 1950; Section 41 application; change report pending; Assistant Charity Commissioner Greater Mumbai Division Mumbai; no orders during pendency of change report; direction to decide change report within six months; contentions kept open; Bombay High Court; Writ Petition No.4282 of 2024; Ramesh Jethalal Morbia; Jain Jagruti Centre Central Board Charitable Trust; public trust; charity commissioner; writ petition disposed; no costs.

What did the court decide?

Petition disposed of with no interference in the impugned order; change report directed to be heard expeditiously and decided within six months; all contentions kept open; no costs. ¶20

Ramesh Jethalal Morbia and Anr. vs Jain Jagruti Centre Central Board Charitable Trust and Ors. — Bombay HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

Petition disposed of with no interference in the impugned order; change report directed to be heard expeditiously and decided within six months; all contentions kept open; no costs.

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Issue for consideration

Whether the Court should interfere with the impugned order dated 29 November 2023 of the Assistant Charity Commissioner, Greater Mumbai Division, Mumbai, whereby it was observed that, as the change report is pending, no orders of the nature sought by the petitioner could be passed on the application filed under Section 41 of the Maharashtra Public Trust Act, 1950.

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Court's answer

The Court is not inclined to interfere with the impugned order dated 29 November 2023 passed by the Assistant Charity Commissioner, Greater Mumbai Division, Mumbai.

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Ratio / Principle

The Court agrees with the reasons in the impugned order, particularly paragraph-19, that where the change report is pending, no orders of the nature sought by the petitioner could be passed on the application under Section 41 of the Maharashtra Public Trust Act, 1950.

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Key takeaways

Since the change report is pending adjudication, the Court directs that the change report be taken up for hearing as expeditiously as possible.ratio¶14
The pending change report is to be decided within a period of six months.ratio¶18
All the contentions of the parties are expressly kept open.obiter¶19

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Bombay High Court (G. S. Kulkarni & Advait M. Sethna, JJ.), Writ Petition No.4282 of 2024, decided 1 April 2025: The Court declined to interfere with the order dated 29 November 2023 of the Assistant Charity Commissioner, Greater Mumbai Division, Mumbai, which had observed that, as the change report was pending, no orders of the nature sought by the petitioner could be passed on the application filed under Section 41 of the Maharashtra Public Trust Act, 1950; the Court agreed with the reasons in the impugned order, particularly paragraph-19. As the change report remained pending adjudication, the Court directed that it be taken up for hearing as expeditiously as possible and decided within six months. All contentions of the parties were expressly kept open. Petition disposed of; no costs.

Ramesh Jethalal Morbia and Anr. v. Jain Jagruti Centre Central Board Charitable Trust and Ors.

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