Date:15/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/15/stories/2008071553960400.htm

New Delhi

Anil Nanda moves High Court

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Anil Nanda on Monday moved the Delhi High Court against a judgment by a Single-Judge Bench of the Court dismissing his suit challenging the decision of the governing body of Delhi-based Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre Limited (EHIRCL) to convert it from a charitable society into a company.

Anil Nanda is the younger brother of industrialist Rajan Nanda, erstwhile Chairman of EHIRCL.

He has sought restoration of the Institute to its original status of a charitable trust.

After hearing counsel for Rajan Nanda that Anil Nanda’s plea could not be heard as he had not made respondents all the parties involved in the matter, a Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice A. K. Sikri and Justice Manmohan Singh posted the matter to July 22 for further hearing.

Justice B. D. Ahmed had earlier this month dismissed the suit saying that the plaintiff had not sought permission of the Court before filing the suit as provided in the Civil Procedure Code.

Anil Nanda submitted that EHIRCL was a charitable trust established by his father H. P. Nanda, in 1981 and the DDA had provided it two acres of land at Rs.10,000 per acre. After the death of Mr. H. P. Nanda in 1999, Rajan Nanda and others of the Institute had hatched a conspiracy to grab its huge reserves and substantial assets by setting up another society with an identical name in Chandigarh, he alleged.