Bhartiya Kala Prasarani Sabha Throu.Its Sec. Pushkraj Bhalchandra Pathak v. Ld. Assistant Charity Commissioner IV Pune and Anr.
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Bombay High Court, Civil Appellate Jurisdiction; WRIT PETITION NO. 9757 OF 2024 (31-WP-9757-2024); Bhartiya Kala Prasarani Sabha v. Ld. Assistant Charity Commissioner IV Pune; Somasekhar Sundaresan, J.; decided March 4, 2026. Charity law — locus of trustees and members; application filed August 23, 2018 by Respondents seeking appointment of seven trustees from members' list; members' list dated March 1, 2018 approved and upheld by Learned Single Judge June 9, 2020 (W.P. No. 7170 of 2019; W.P. (St) No. 20906 of 2019); removal of trustees October 17, 2018 under Section 41D, under stay in First Appeal; impugned order taking rival applications on record for concurrent hearing with objections open; no interference; direction to consider membership-list contention. Keywords: Assistant Charity Commissioner, locus standi, trustee removal, Section 41D, concurrent adjudication, maintainability, First Appeal stay.