Bombay High Court has directed Maharashtra Government to forthwith frame rules to govern the<br/>affairs of Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust in Shirdi and constitute a new managing committee. The term of the committee has expired three years back.<br/><br/>Hearing a petition alleging misappropriation of funds by the trustees, Justices N D Deshpande and Naresh Patil also asked the state to keep a proper record of meetings of Managing committee, Advisory Council and Bhakta Mandal.<br/><br/>The bench noted that since last six years the rules had not been framed to govern the trust as laid down under Section 25 of Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) Act, 2004.<br/><br/>The judges, however, clarified that this order shall not be construed to mean that they had approved that the managing committee constituted under Section 5 of the Act was strictly in law. The bench said, the government is at liberty to consider the issue in respect of constitution of managing committee.