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3. The Trust Deed contained an Arbitration Clause which reads as under:

All disputes and questions whatsoever which shall arise either during the continuation of this TRUST between the SETTLOR, TRUSTEES and Beneficiaries to the income or to the Corpus of their respective representatives or any of them touching this Deed or the construction or the application thereof or any clause or thing herein contained or any account, calculation or dividend or division of assets or liabilities to be made hereunder, as to any act, deed or omission of any one of the TRUSTEES or as to any other matter in any way relating to the Deed of Trust or any affairs thereof or the rights, duties and liabilities of any person under this Deed shall be referred to a single arbitrator in case the parties agree upon or otherwise to two arbitrators, one to be appointed by each party to the dispute, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of Indian Arbitration Act or any statutory modification thereof for the time being in force. In case the two arbitrators so appointed do not agree upon the matter, it shall be referred to an umpire to be appointed by the two arbitrators representing each of the parties to the dispute.

8. It is not disputed that none of the parties to this application were signatories of the Trust Deed and the only signatories to the Trust Deed were Settlor and Trustees. The beneficiaries were not signatories to the Trust Deed. The question arises, can a person reaping benefit under the Trust, becomes bound by the Arbitration Clause given in the Trust and his disputes with the other beneficiaries is to be referred in terms of the Arbitration Clause? There is no doubt that a beneficiary can have benefits of the Trust only in accordance with the terms of the Trust and in the same ratio and proportion which is provided under the Trust. But he is granted benefits by the Trust not out of any contract between him and the Trustees and the Settlor. He is not made beneficiary out of his choice but because of the desire of the Settlor. The Trust is not a contract between Settlor and the beneficiary. A Trust is a contract between Settlor and Trustees, where Settlor places some property in the hands of Trustees and gives power to the Trustees to manage the property in a specified manner and to give benefit of the property to certain persons. A Trust may be a Private Trust or a Public Trust and a similar arbitration clause can be there even in a Public Trust. In Public trust or Trust of religious nature, the beneficiaries would be innumerable persons, who are not even known to the Trustees. I consider that the Settlor and Trustees together cannot enter into a contract on behalf of the beneficiaries. Any dispute between the beneficiaries can be referred to the arbitration only if there is an independent Arbitration agreement between the beneficiaries for referring the dispute to the arbitration.