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6. In appeal No.83 of 1980 (Misc. Petition trustees of Tapidas and Tulsidas Vrajdas Charitable Trust which was founded by an Indenture dated January 16, 1884. The objects of the aforesaid trust are the maintenance of the Vithalnathji Temple at Surat and other general Charitable and Educational objects. The income of the trust from various properties, shares, securities, wadi, hall etc. is utilised not only for the maintenance of the said temple, but also for educational purposes such as donations to schools and educational institutions, scholar ships, grant of fees and books to deserving students etc. The Trust is duly registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act. One of the properties settled by the said trust bearing Survey No. 715 of Mazagon Division had been leased out by an Indenture of Lease dated October 16, 1879, for a term of 95 years. By an Indenture of Conveyance dated june 15,1901, the Trustees of the trust had also become the Lessors of a piece of land at Malabar Hill. The trustees leased out the said land to a third party. However, by an Indenture datee January 24,1973, the Trustees sold their reversionary interest as Lessors in the said lease with the result that from and after January 24, 1973, the petitioners ceased to have any interest in the property. The dispute is now confined to the land bearing Survey No. 715 only. The entire rent and income received from the said property has always been and are appropriated for the aforesaid objects of the trust.