Foreign contribution registration requires truthful religious-status disclosure and creates no vested right to receive funds.

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....Foreign contribution registration under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 does not create a vested or absolute right to receive foreign contributions. Registration depends on the competent authority's discretionary assessment, reviewable for perversity, disregard of relevant material, or non-application of mind. Applicants must truthfully disclose their organisational character: an organisation professing Zen Buddhist philosophy is religious and cannot describe itself as non-religious. Religious organisations may apply, but must make full and accurate disclosures; organisations involved in conversion from one faith to another must be denied registration. Appeals from refusal of registration, being incapable of monetary valuation and treated as appeals from original decrees, fall for consideration by a Division Bench.....