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1962 Supreme(SC) 264

P.B.GAJENDRAGADKAR, K.C.DAS GUPTA
Sheikh Abdul Kayum: Mulla Alibhai – Appellant
Versus
Mulla Alibhai: Madrasai Hakimia And Companyronation High School Society – Respondent


Advocates:
B.SEN, C.K.DAFTARY, I.M.SHROFF, J.B.DADACHAN, O.C.MATHUR, P.L.VOHRA, RAJINDAR NARAIN, RAMESHWAR NATH ROY, Ravindra Narayan, S.N.ANDLEY, T.S.N.DIVANJI

Judgment

DAS GUPTA, J.: This unfortunate litigation over a school which was started sixty years ago is one of the unhappy consequences of a feud that raised its ugly head in the Daudi Bohra Community many years ago. The School was started at Burhanpur by certain members of the Daudi Bohra Community of Burhanpur in the Year 1902. It was named Madrasal Faize Hakimia and its object was to impart religious and secular education to boys of the Daudi Bohra Community. Funds were collected for the purpose of the school from members of that community for the maintenance of the school. In the year 1908 English classes were added to the school and in 1911 it was raised to the status of a High School under the name "Madrasai Hakimia and Coronation High School". Some time before this on May 24,1909 one Daudi Bohra of Surat of the name of Abdul Hussain Abdullali Faizullabhai Muchhala made a Waqf of certain properties in Bombay for the benefit and advantage of this school at Burhanpur. For the management of this trust he appointed as trustees 12 gentlemen whom he mentioned as persons who had already been appointed trustees of the school. Only a few months after this another trust came into existen




































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