Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
92.Public charities.
(1) In the case of any
alleged breach of any express or constructive trust created for public purposes
of a charitable or religious nature, or where the direction of the Court is
deemed necessary for the administration of any such trust, the Advocate
General, or two or more persons having an interest in the trust and having
obtained the consent in writing of the Advocate General, may institute a suit,
whether contentious or not, in the principal Civil Court of original
jurisdiction or in any other Court empowered in that behalf by the State
Government within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the whole or any part
of the subject-matter of the trust is situate, to obtain a decree-
(a)
removing any trustee;
(b)
appointing a new trustee;
(c)
vesting any property in a trustee;
(d)
directing accounts and inquiries;
(e)
declaring what proportion of the trust-property or of the interest therein
shall be allocated to any particular object of the trust;
(f)
authorizing the whole or any part of the trust-property to be let, sold,
mortgaged or exchanged;
(g)
settling a scheme; or
(h)
granting such further or other relief as the nature of the case may require.
(2) Save as provided
by the Religious Endowments Act, 1863, 20 of 1863.{Ins.by Act 2 of 1951, s.13.}
[or by any corresponding law in force in a Part B State], no suit claiming any
of the relief's specified in sub-section (1) shall be instituted in respect of
any such trust as is therein referred to except in conformity with the
provisions of that sub-section.