Case Law Analysis
|Supreme Court of India
Article 14 & Manifest Arbitrariness | State Takeover of Private Trust Without Proof of Mismanagement Violates Constitutional Rights : SC
Supreme Court strikes down Bihar's 2015 Act seizing a century-old private trust, ruling that complete acquisition without evidence of mismanagement or public interest violates Article 14. The judgment reinforces that state intervention in private trusts must pass the 'manifest arbitrariness' test, protecting hereditary trustees' rights under the Indian Trusts Act.