JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Section 31 (2) of The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, against the order passed in No. 0100003722018, dated 22.10.2018 on the file of the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Foreigners Division (FCRA Wing).)

1. This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal has been filed by the appellant challenging the order passed in No.0100003722018, dated 22.10.2018 on the file of the Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Foreigners Division (FCRA Wing).

2. The learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the appellant was a Trust registered under the name and style of Poondimadha Religious Trust, on 04.03.2014 under the Trust Act. The Trust was created for the purpose of carrying out the public religious objects and purposes wide enough for the extension of the benefit thereof to all, irrespective of class, community, relief of poor, education, medical relief and advancement of any object of general and/or public utility and so that such benefit may be given directly by the said Trust. According to the appellant, the Trust is working under the Poondimadha Religious Trust, Poondi, Thanjavur District. The appellant further submitted that