<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to entertain a plea by the Delhi Waqf Board claiming land in the Shahdara area, in the national capital, where a gurudwara has been established since the India-Pak partition.</p><p>A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Satish Chandra Sharma told senior advocate Sanjoy Ghose representing the Delhi Waqf Board that once a Gurudwara was there, let it be.</p><p>Ghose contended that the lower courts had held that a mosque was there, but now some kind of gurudwara is there. </p><p>It is not "some kind" but instead a proper functioning gurudwara, the bench said.</p>.Delhi High Court quashes FIR against man booked for staring at co-passenger on flight.<p>The bench said that a religious structure is already functioning there, and the petitioner should relinquish the claim once records show that a religious structure has been functioning on the land since 1948 or partition. </p><p>According to the records of the board, the property in question before the apex court was notified as "Masjid Takia Babbar Shah".</p><p>The court was hearing a 2012 appeal filed by the Delhi Waqf Board, challenging an order of September 24, 2010 of the Delhi High Court, which had held that the property to be in possession of late Hira Singh, who had purchased the property from Mohammad Ahsan in 1953.</p><p>The counsel contended that the High Court disturbed the concurrent findings in fact, which were decided by the trial court in favour of his client in October 1982, and subsequently in February 1989.</p><p>The counsel submitted that the property has been, since time immemorial, dedicated as waqf property, and witnesses in the suit deposed that a mosque had existed there. </p><p>The court, however, dismissed the appeal filed by the Waqf Board against the decision of the High Court.</p><p>The Board claimed that the property has been notified in the Gazette on December 3, 1970 as waqf and subsequently corrected by another notification of April 29, 1978, published in the Delhi Gazette on May 18, 1978.</p><p>The High Court had said that Singh was admittedly in occupation of this property since 1947-48, and noted that the board, which claimed the property to be waqf property, has not provided dates as to from which date the property was being used as a masjid.</p>
<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to entertain a plea by the Delhi Waqf Board claiming land in the Shahdara area, in the national capital, where a gurudwara has been established since the India-Pak partition.</p><p>A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Satish Chandra Sharma told senior advocate Sanjoy Ghose representing the Delhi Waqf Board that once a Gurudwara was there, let it be.</p><p>Ghose contended that the lower courts had held that a mosque was there, but now some kind of gurudwara is there. </p><p>It is not "some kind" but instead a proper functioning gurudwara, the bench said.</p>.Delhi High Court quashes FIR against man booked for staring at co-passenger on flight.<p>The bench said that a religious structure is already functioning there, and the petitioner should relinquish the claim once records show that a religious structure has been functioning on the land since 1948 or partition. </p><p>According to the records of the board, the property in question before the apex court was notified as "Masjid Takia Babbar Shah".</p><p>The court was hearing a 2012 appeal filed by the Delhi Waqf Board, challenging an order of September 24, 2010 of the Delhi High Court, which had held that the property to be in possession of late Hira Singh, who had purchased the property from Mohammad Ahsan in 1953.</p><p>The counsel contended that the High Court disturbed the concurrent findings in fact, which were decided by the trial court in favour of his client in October 1982, and subsequently in February 1989.</p><p>The counsel submitted that the property has been, since time immemorial, dedicated as waqf property, and witnesses in the suit deposed that a mosque had existed there. </p><p>The court, however, dismissed the appeal filed by the Waqf Board against the decision of the High Court.</p><p>The Board claimed that the property has been notified in the Gazette on December 3, 1970 as waqf and subsequently corrected by another notification of April 29, 1978, published in the Delhi Gazette on May 18, 1978.</p><p>The High Court had said that Singh was admittedly in occupation of this property since 1947-48, and noted that the board, which claimed the property to be waqf property, has not provided dates as to from which date the property was being used as a masjid.</p>
