1. Whether trustees elected midterm, to fill up the vacancies caused by resignation, death or retirement, are liable to vacate the office on completion of the unexpired period, notwithstanding the scheme providing fixed tenure of five years from the date of election for the trustees elected to the Pachiyappa’s Trust, is the core question that arises for consideration in these applications filed by the Association of Teachers of Pachiyappa’s Trust Colleges.

2. These four applications are at the instance of joint action committee of AUT Unit of Pachayappa’s trust colleges and the principal prayer is to declare that the Trustees have no right to continue in office beyond 8 October 2014. The applicant, by way of the applications for interim injunction, seek to restrain the trustees from making appointments to various teaching and non teaching posts. The prayer in A.No.779 of 2015 is for appointment of an interim Administrator to manage the trust and hold elections to elect the Trustees.

The constitution of trust:-

3. The Pachayappa’s Trust is administered in accordance with the Scheme framed by the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras (Equity Side) on 12 February 1909, 19 July