The Madras High Court today appointed retired Justice A K Rajan as a Trustee-cum-Chairman for the P T Lee Chengalvaraya Naicker Trust here, an educational institution.
The Division Bench Comprising Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice K Ravichandrabaabu which passed an interim order on a letter by the Secretary of the Trust said "the term of office of the last board constituted by the court on September 9, 2011 comes to an end on September 19, 2014.
"Therefore the fifth board to be constituted has to start function from Septembr 20, 2014. For such purpose the Secretary of the Trust addressed a letter dated 13.06.2014, to the Registrar General of this court submitting all the sixty applications received from the applicants for appointment of trustees of the Trust, under different categories for necessary action."
A copy of the resolution passed by the present eight trustees which resolved to forward all the 60 applications received to place before the High Court was also submitted in this regard by the Counsel appeared for the Secretary of the Trust.
When the Bench started perusing the applications to make selection and appointment of Trustees it felt that such selection and appointment of the members of the board from various categories, cannot be done within a span of two days.
"We are of the view that constitution of the full board cannot be done without ascertaining the facts and getting a report with regard to each of the applicants, so as to enable us to select and appoint the qualified and suitable persons to the Board in each category among the present applicants. Instead of constituting the Full Board at once, one of the trustees as Ex-officio Chairman of the Board, we appoint retired Justice A K Rajan as Trustee-cum-Chairman for the Board of Trustees who will assume office on September 20.
We request him to scrutinize all the 60 applications received from various applicants and forward the applications satisfying necessary qualification as indicated in the Scheme decree before this Court by October 6.
