Around a week after the laying of the foundation stone of the proposed mosque to be built at Dhannipur village near Ayodhya, two sisters filed a petition in the Allahabad high court claiming ownership of the land allotted for the mosque by the government.
The sisters, Rani Kapur and Rama Rani filed the petition in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Wednesday.
The duo claimed that they owned five acre land, which had been allotted for the construction of the mosque and that their claim was currently under consideration before the consolidation officer of Ayodhya and that the hearing of the matter was scheduled next week.
They claimed in their petition that their parents had settled in Ayodhya after leaving Pakistan during the division of the country. They said that their father Gyanchand had been allotted 28 acres of land in Dhannipur village on lease.
The revenue officials, however, removed the name of their father from the records in 1998, they said adding that they had moved the commissioner of Faizabad against the decision and he decided in their favour.
''The land was allotted for the mosque by the government even though their plea was under consideration of the revenue officials,'' they said.
Incidentally, the foundation stone of the mosque was laid on the Republic Day. No important political dignitary would be invited at the foundation stone laying ceremony. The sprawling Mosque complex would also have a hospital, library, research centre to be built inside the mosque complex.
The Sunni Central Waqf Board has been allotted five acres of land at Dhannipur, about 30 kilometres from Ayodhya for building a mosque as per the supreme court order. The Board has set up an Indo Islamic Cultural Foundation Trust to oversee the construction of the mosque.
(Published 04 February 2021, 05:31 IST)
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