law: Charitable and Religious Trusts Act ,1920
  3. Power to apply to the Court in respect of trusts of a
  
  charitable or religious nature
  Save as hereinafter provided in this Act, any person having an
  
  interest in any express or constructive trust created or existing for a public
  
  purpose of a charitable or religious nature may apply by petition to the Court
  
  within the local limits of whose jurisdiction any substantial part of the
  
  subject-matter of the trust is situate to obtain an order embodying all or any
  
  of the following directions, namely:-
  (1) directing the trustee to furnish the petitioner through the
  
  Court with particulars as to the nature and objects of the trust, and of the
  
  value condition, management and application of the subject-matter of the trust,
  
  and of the income belonging thereto, or as any of these matters, and
  (2) directing that the accounts of the trusts shall be examined
  
  and audited:
  PROVIDED that no person shall apply for any such
  
  direction in respect of accounts relating to a period more than three years
  
  prior to the date of the petition.