New Delhi, April 3 -- Mehli Mistry, a former trustee of three-key trusts of the Tata Group including the Bai Hirabai Trust Jamsetji Tata Navsari Charitable Institution (BHJTNCI), on Friday formally objected to the appointment and continued representation of two-trustees -- Venu Srinivasan and Vijay Singh in the BHJTNCI on the ground that the said individuals are ineligible to qualify for the positions and their appointment as trustees in the said Trust is in blatant violation of a 1923 Trust Deed.

Mistry, in an objection-application filed to the Maharashtra Charity Commissioner, contended that two trustees of the said Trust -- Srinivasan (Chairman emeritus of TVS Motor) and Singh (a former IAS officer) never met the qualifications to be ...