1. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard learned counsels appearing for the parties finally.

2. In all these petitions, the order dated 04.03.2017 passed by the learned Assistant Charity Commissioner, Nagpur, in different change reports, rejecting the applications filed by the petitioners under Section 73A of the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act, for being joined as intervenor, is under challenge. It has been held relying upon the decision of this Court in Chetan Mehta vs. State of Maharashtra and others, reported in 2008 (6) AllMR 189, that the intervenors have not demonstrated as to how their impleadment would assist the authority in determining the present change report. It further holds that merely because the intervenors are the trustees as on the date, it would be of no use to assist the enquiry on the change reports which were filed long back.

3. The learned counsels appearing for the petitioners in all these petitions, supported by Shri U.A. Gosawi, the learned counsel appearing for respondent No.1, urged that all the petitioners in the petitions were appointed as trustees of the trust in question by an order dated 19.05.2016 passed by the learned Joint Charity Commis