Supreme Court of India

Shri Mallikarjun Devasthan, Shelgi v. Subhash Mallikarjun Birajdar and Others

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Reported as [2024] 5 S.C.R. 62
Bench A.S. Bopanna and Sanjay Kumar JJ.
Decided 25 April 2024

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the learned Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay adopted a rather hypertechnical approach by attaching so much importance to the delay in the submission of the first Change Report.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether delay in submitting Change Report to record name in register maintained u/s 7 Maharashtra Public Trusts Act, 1950 (1950 Act) in relation to the Vahiwatdar (Administrator) of a Public Trust, can be condoned. Further, consequence of Change Report being submitted beyond stipulated time of 90 days u/s 22(1) 1950 Act. Headnotes Appellant was registered as a Public Trust u/s. 18 of the 1950 Act – Mode of succession of managership was that Mallikarjun Mahalingappa Patil was to be the Vahiwatdar of the Trust and the eldest male member of his family was to succeed him –

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