https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192405 The Supreme Court construed the trust deed as creating a continuing object of perpetuating Tilak's newspaper activities and held that its references to spreading political education and awakening political rights described a political purpose, not education in the abstract. It further held that the wide statutory phrase "general public utility" could not be read so narrowly as to exclude all political purposes in every case, but on these facts the dominant object was political education and political mobilisation for political change. A political purpose was treated as not charitable under the Act, so the trust was not registrable as a public trust. The dissent considered the object to be national education and awakening of rights, and therefore charitable. en-us Tue, 01 May 1962 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:12:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192405 The Supreme Court construed the trust deed as creating a continuing object of perpetuating Tilak's newspaper activities and held that its references to spreading political education and awakening political rights described a political purpose, not education in the abstract. It further held that the wide statutory phrase "general public utility" could not be read so narrowly as to exclude all political purposes in every case, but on these facts the dominant object was political education and political mobilisation for political change. A political purpose was treated as not charitable under the Act, so the trust was not registrable as a public trust. The dissent considered the object to be national education and awakening of rights, and therefore charitable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 01 May 1962 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192405