https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=25286 A public charitable trust continued to qualify for exemption under section 11 after a supplementary deed of 1958 removed the family-specific wording found in the original deed. The amended deed substituted a wider charitable description, curing the non-charitable feature that had earlier allowed discretion to benefit the settlor's family. The Court treated the supplementary deed as genuine, acted upon, and binding on the trustees, and held that the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 did not apply proprio vigore to a public trust with indeterminate beneficiaries. As the trust funds could no longer be applied to a non-charitable family purpose, the trust remained wholly charitable and retained exemption. en-us Thu, 14 May 1987 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:57:56 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=25286 A public charitable trust continued to qualify for exemption under section 11 after a supplementary deed of 1958 removed the family-specific wording found in the original deed. The amended deed substituted a wider charitable description, curing the non-charitable feature that had earlier allowed discretion to benefit the settlor's family. The Court treated the supplementary deed as genuine, acted upon, and binding on the trustees, and held that the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 did not apply proprio vigore to a public trust with indeterminate beneficiaries. As the trust funds could no longer be applied to a non-charitable family purpose, the trust remained wholly charitable and retained exemption. Case-Laws Income Tax Thu, 14 May 1987 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=25286