RAVINDRA MORESHWAR SARNAIKversusTHE ASSISTANT CHARITY COMMISSIONER

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                               IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
                                       CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

                                    INTERIM APPLICATION NO. 7819 OF 2026
                                                     IN
                                       WRIT PETITION NO. 17342 OF 2025

                      Ravindra Moreshwar Sarnaik & anr.                      ..Applicants

                              Versus

                      The Assistant Charity Commissioner & ors.            …Respondents


                      Mr. Rajesh Tekale, for the Applicants/Petitioners.

                      Mr. Aayesh Gandhi, a/w Mr. Gaurang Samel, i/b Wadia
                           Ghandy & Co., for Respondents.


                                                 CORAM :       N. J. JAMADAR, J.
                                                 DATE    :     05th OCTOBER 2026

                      P.C.:
SAINATH
SANJAY
BODKHE
Digitally signed by
SAINATH SANJAY
BODKHE
Date: 2026.10.08


                      1.      Heard the learned Counsel for the parties.
11:11:03 +0530




                      2.      The challenge in this petition is to an order dated 26 th

                      October, 2024 passed by the Assistant Charity Commissioner-V,

                      Greater Mumbai in an application being Application No.

                      ACC/V/15/2024 filed purportedly under the provisions of

                      Section 41-A of the Maharashtra Public Trust Act, 1950 whereby

                      the petitioners sought the directions in regard to the proper

                      management of the Respondent No. 2 – Trust.




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3.      The genesis of the dispute between the parties is the rival

claim as to who is lawfully in the management of the affairs of

the Respondent No.2 – Trust. Two change reports have been filed

in regard to the election of the Managing Committee of the Trust

in the year 2022.

4.      Having regard to the nature of the dispute, the appropriate

course would be to direct expeditious hearing and disposal of

the Change Reports pertaining to the election to the Managing

Committee of the Respondent No.2 – Trust held in the year,

2022, expeditiously as that would only put an end to the claims

and counter-claims as to the right to manage the affairs of the

Respondent No. 2 – Trust.

5.      The Writ Petition, thus, stands disposed with a request to

the Assistant Charity Commissioner seized with Change Report

Nos. ACC/V/6006/2022 and ACC/V/5639/2022 to hear and

decide those change reports as expeditiously as possible and,

preferably, within a period of three months from the date of

communication of this order.

6.      In view of the disposal of the petition, the Interim

Application also stands disposed.

7.      All contentions of all the parties are kept expressly open.

                                                [N. J. JAMADAR, J.]


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