JUDGMENT:

1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith, and, with the consent of learned Counsel for the parties, heard finally.

2. These petitions under Article 227 of the Constitution of India assail the legality, propriety and correctness of a judgment and order dated 10th September, 2025, passed by the learned Joint Charity commissioner, Nashik in Appeal No. 78/2022 and 81/2022, whereby the appeals under Section 70 of the Maharashtra Public Trust Act, 1950 (“the Trust Act, 1950) against an order dated 02nd August, 2022, passed by the Deputy Charity Commissioner, Nashik in Change Report No. 451/2005, came to be disposed by appointing the Inspector in the Public Trust Registration office with a direction to conduct election to the Managing Committee of Dnyan Prasarak Mandal – the Public Trust, from amongst 13 members of the Trust.

3. Though the dispute has a chequered history with multiple rounds of litigation before the authorities under the Trust, Act, 1950, yet, the background facts can be summarized as under :-

3.1 Dyan Prasarak Mandal, Nashik, came to be registered as a Public Trust vide Registration No. F-2853/Nashik, in the year 1991. There were 16 members of the Trust. There w