Supreme Court of India

Ratilal Panachand Gandhi v. The State of Bombay and Others

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Reported as [1954] 1 S.C.R. 1055
Bench Mehr Chand Mahajan C, Mukherjea, S. R. Das, Vivian Bose and Ghulam Hasan JJ.
Decided 18 March 1954

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Constitution of India, arts. 25 and 26-Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950 (Act XX!X of 1950), ss. 44, 47(3) (4) (5) (6), 55(c) and 56(1) -Whether ultra vires the Constitution-Section 58 of the Act­ Whether ultra vires the State Legislature. Held, that the provision of s. 44 of the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950, relating to the appointment of the Charity Commissioner as a trustee of any public trust by the court without any reservation in regard to religious institutions Iike ten1ples and Maths is unconstitutional and must be held to be void. The provisions of cl. (3) to (6) of s. 47 of the Act to

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