A charitable organisation providing food and shelter and rehabilitating the disabled, orphans and destitutes has approached this Court for an order to get the sale deed released and to direct the first respondent to hold an enquiry into the misconduct of the fourth respondent and to take appropriate proceedings in the accordance with law including to award compensation to the petitioner for the inordinate delay in releasing the document.

2. The petitioner is a charitable trust with the objects, inter alia, to educate and rehabilitate the disabled, orphans and destitutes who are lying uncared for on the roadsides in the city of Chennai and its suburbs, to give them food and shelter and to treat them in the nearby hospitals and also to rehabilitate them. The petitioner Trust has been recognized by the Directorate of Rehabilitation of the Disabled, Government of Tamil Nadu and they have been given the benefit under Sec.80-G of the Income Tax Act. According to the petitioner, the Trust is running a Home called “Anbagaam” at No.11, Perianna Mudali Street, Chennai-1. As the said accommodation was inadequate with the number of inmates increasing day-by-day, the petitioner Trust, with