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Issues: Whether the Committee had power under the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Act, 1971 to create a trust and transfer management of the hospital, and whether registration under section 12A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 could be sustained on that basis.
Analysis: The Committee is a statutory body whose powers are confined to the duties and functions expressly conferred by section 24 of the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Act, 1971. The provision relied upon for incidental powers did not authorise the creation of a separate trust or the transfer of property and management to such an entity for activities beyond the Committee's statutory functions. The Court also noted that the legality of the trust had already been adjudicated in civil proceedings, and that decision could not be reappreciated in the present appeal. On an independent examination, the trust and the collaboration arrangement were beyond the Committee's authority and therefore ultra vires.
Conclusion: The Committee had no power to create the trust, and the trust's constitution was illegal and beyond the Committee's statutory mandate. Consequently, registration under section 12A could not be granted.
Ratio Decidendi: A statutory body cannot, by invoking incidental powers, create a separate trust or entity to do what it is itself not empowered to do; any such arrangement is ultra vires and cannot sustain tax exemption dependent on its legality.
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