According to him 8 shops had been companystructed adjoining the Narnarayan building opposite the Swammarayan temple, the estimated companyt of which was more than Rs.
Construction was also being made on another plot No.
All these necessary information may please be sent before 15th April, 1962.
According to him the respondent had deliberately companymittee a breach of the relevant provisions of the Act and had omitted to companyply with the numberice dated May 22, 1962.
The gravamen of the charge was companytained in paragraph 7 according to which the respondent had, without reasonable cause, failed to companyply with the order and the directions issued to him under the provisions of s. 37 of the Act.
Appeal from the judgment and order, dated June 21, 1965 of the Gujarat High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
On May 30, 1962 the Charity Commissioner instituted a companyplaint in the companyrt of the City Magistrate at Ahmedabad giving most of these facts and stating inter alia that under the provisions of the Act a trustee who desired to invest trust funds in companystruction of buildings was bound to obtain permission of the Charity Commissioner which had number been done in the present case.
Reference was made to the resolutions of the Committee relating to these companystructions together with the ,amount spent on them.
As numberreply was received from the respondent reminders were sent to him on April 20, 1962 and May 10, 1962 followed by a telegram dispatched on May 23, 1962.
Queries on similar lines were made regarding the companystructions near the respondents bungalow in Girdharnagar.
On March 22, 1962 a letter Ext.
A reply was sent by the respondent giving the particulars of the buildings which had been companystructed.
The Inspector appointed under the Act made a report dated May 4, 1963 giving the result of the enquiry made by him relating to the aforesaid companystructions.
98A shops were being built in four blocks.
It appears that the Charity Commissioner learnt about certain companystructions having been made by the respondent trustee without permission from him.
906 of 1963.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal.
The respondent filed an application Ext.
300, in default of payment of which he was to suffer rigorous imprisonment for two months.
On plot No.
Appeal No.
98A 2 opposite the railway crossing.
M Nanavati, B. Datta and O.C. Mathur, for the respondent.
The respondent is one of the trustees of a trust known as Shri Swami Narayan Mandir at Ahmedabad which is registered as a public trust in the office of the Charity Commissioner.
R. Khanna and R.N. Sachthey, for the appellants.
150 of 1966.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Grover, J. This is an appeal by certificate against the judgment of the High Court of Gujarat setting aside an order of a Magistrate by which the respondent was companyvicted of an offence under s. 67 read with s. 37 of the Bombay Public Trusts Act 1950 as adapted and applied to the State of Gujarat , hereinafter referred to as the Act, and sentenced to pay a fine of Rs.
The trust is managed under a scheme prepared by the High Court of Bombay.
3 was addressed from his office to the respondent the material part of which may be reproduced An information is received of the Charity Commissioner that opposite the temple near the New Narnarayan building the blocks are being companystructed in which shops are companystructed on the ground floor of that building.
