LAWS(ALL)-2017-4-145

OPERATION MOBILIZATION INDIA, REP. BY DR. JOSEPH DSOUZA AND OTHERS Vs. THE STATE OF TELANGANA, REP. BY ITS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, HOME DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, HYDERABAD AND OTHERS

Decided On April 03, 2017
Operation Mobilization India, Rep. By Dr. Joseph Dsouza And Others Appellant
V/S
The State Of Telangana, Rep. By Its Principal Secretary, Home Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad And Others Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned Government Pleader for the respondents 1 to 4 and learned counsel for the fifth respondent.

(2.) In this case, this court is called upon to examine a century old settled law by relying on some subsequent judgments decided on facts of those cases and laying down law applicable to those circumstances.

(3.) The first petitioner is a Religious Trust registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 and running different Charities/NGOs from the same office premises with a turn over of more than Rs. 200 Crores. The second petitioner is a Moderator of these organisations and a Bishop also. The third petitioner is the son of the second petitioner. The fifth respondent lodged a complaint on 29.09.2016 with the third respondent and the third respondent directed the registration of the complaint. Accordingly, the fourth respondent registered the complaint as Crime No.22 of 2016. In the complaint, the fifth respondent claimed that he worked as Chief Financial Officer and in other roles in the first petitioner organization from 1989 to 2012. He listed out various acts and omissions by the petitioners.