SHIMLA: Two days after an enormous protest was organised to demand demolition of an alleged unauthorised mosque, the state waqf board on Saturday claimed the mosque‘s authorized possession earlier than the Shimla municipal commissioner’s court docket.
After listening to each side, the municipal commissioner’s court docket posted the case for subsequent listening to on October 5. Waqf board’s property officer Kutubuddin Ahmed instructed mediapersons later that the dispute doesn’t pertain to the possession of the mosque or its land, however about its additional development.
As per information, the waqf board turned the proprietor of the land on which the mosque was constructed when Shimla was a part of undivided Punjab, he claimed. Showing for native residents, advocate Jagat Pal instructed reporters later that the court docket has sought a standing report on the development of the disputed spiritual constructing.
He added that native individuals have been compelled to affix the difficulty because it had been lingering within the municipal commissioner’s court docket for the previous 14 years. Ahmed added that providing of prayers will proceed on the mosque as common. He knowledgeable that the municipal commissioner court docket had issued discover to the waqf board final yr, to which the reply was submitted over the past listening to.
However one other summons was issued after that, to which the Board submitted its reply by means of its advocate on Saturday, added Ahmed.
The problem of the legality of the mosque had flared up after final week’s altercation in Malyana space, when a person from the bulk group had slapped a barber from the minority group, who then known as his buddies, leading to a combat.
After listening to each side, the municipal commissioner’s court docket posted the case for subsequent listening to on October 5. Waqf board’s property officer Kutubuddin Ahmed instructed mediapersons later that the dispute doesn’t pertain to the possession of the mosque or its land, however about its additional development.
As per information, the waqf board turned the proprietor of the land on which the mosque was constructed when Shimla was a part of undivided Punjab, he claimed. Showing for native residents, advocate Jagat Pal instructed reporters later that the court docket has sought a standing report on the development of the disputed spiritual constructing.
He added that native individuals have been compelled to affix the difficulty because it had been lingering within the municipal commissioner’s court docket for the previous 14 years. Ahmed added that providing of prayers will proceed on the mosque as common. He knowledgeable that the municipal commissioner court docket had issued discover to the waqf board final yr, to which the reply was submitted over the past listening to.
However one other summons was issued after that, to which the Board submitted its reply by means of its advocate on Saturday, added Ahmed.
The problem of the legality of the mosque had flared up after final week’s altercation in Malyana space, when a person from the bulk group had slapped a barber from the minority group, who then known as his buddies, leading to a combat.
