Supreme Court of India

Gollaleshwar Dev and Ors. v. Gangawwa Kdm Shantayya Math & Ors.

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Reported as [1985] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 646
Bench A.P. Sen and D.P. Madon JJ.
Decided 15 October 1985

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the appeal succeeds and is allowed with costs.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950, sections 2(10), 50, 51 and 52(i) read with section 92 of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, scope of - Whether two or more trustees of a registered public trust can with the permission in writing of the Charity Commissioner, bring a suit for declaration that certain property belongs to the public trust and for possession of the same from a person holding it adversely to the trust - Words and phrases - Meaning of the phrase "person having interest in the trust" occurring in section 2(10) of the Act - Persons having interest includes trustees and other beneficiaries -

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 mentioned

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