New Delhi, April 19 -- Tata Trusts on Sunday said trustees of the Bai Hirabai Trust have decided to approach the appropriate authority to amend certain restrictive clauses, such as prohibition of non-Zoroastrians from being trustees, in the eligibility criteria of being a trustee in it.

The development comes days after Mehli Mistry, a former trustee of the Tata Trusts, challenged the appointments of veteran industrialist Venu Srinivasan and former defence secretary Vijay Singh to the board of Bai Hirabai Jamsetji Tata Navsari Charitable Institution (Bai Hirabai Trust) in a complaint to the Maharashtra Charity Commissioner.

Mistry had claimed that Srinivasan and Singh do not satisfy the criteria laid out in the trust deed, including the ...