Shimla
The illegal construction case of the mosque in Sanjauli, Himachal Pradesh was held in the court of Municipal Corporation Commissioner Bhupendra Atri on Saturday. The Waqf Board and the mosque manager gave their written reply in court. The commissioner asked under whose jurisdiction the mosque is. Whose responsibility is it for the construction done there? Who has done this construction? Is there any information. He also asked questions about where the money came from for the construction. The advocate of the Waqf Board also replied to this. The commissioner has asked the concerned junior engineer to submit a fresh status report on the next hearing, i.e. on October 5, about how much construction has been done on the spot. After the hearing, Waqf Board’s advocate BS Thakur told the media outside the court that he had submitted the documents to the court. The court has asked to submit the report on the construction. We will see the report and will reply at the next hearing. On the other hand, now the local people have also applied to be made a party in the case. The hearing in the case will be held on October 5.
The board had given NOC for conditional construction: Qutubdin
After the hearing, the State Officer of Waqf Board Qutubdin said that we had given the reply according to the records we had. There is no dispute regarding the land. The land belongs to the board. It has been duly published in the gazette. We have the Jamabandi of 1907, which has the record of Gair Mumkin Masjid. We got the notice for the first time in the year 2023. Furthermore, we were asked to present our side of it. We had presented our side in the last hearing. When we got the summons again, we presented our side with the revenue records. People who offer namaz in the mosque have applied that there is less space here. Now more people come to offer namaz, which is why the board has given conditional NOC to the committee for construction. The condition was that the construction should be done after getting the map passed from the corporation. We did not ask to do anything wrong. Now it is up to the court to see whether it was right or not.
The society of local people also gave a 20-page written application in the court. In the case of illegal construction in the mosque in Sanjauli, the Waqf Board and the local people have now come face to face over the possession of the land. The Waqf Board claims that this mosque is built on the board’s land. The matter is of illegal construction and there is no dispute over the ownership of the land. On the other hand, the local people of Sanjauli have now applied to become a party in this case under Rule 10 CPC. People have also given a 20-page letter to the Commissioner Court on Saturday, in which many matters related to the mosque have been mentioned. They claim that the place where the mosque is built belongs to the government. Local people’s advocate Jagatpal said that we have the revenue records. In this, the state government is the owner of this land. Its details are on Khasra number 36 in Jamabandi. The mosque in it is shown as a non-viable mosque. This means that it is built on government land. Advocate Jagat Pal said after the hearing that this matter is pending for 14 years. In such a situation, the local people were forced to come forward. The junior engineer of the Municipal Corporation made the wrong people a party in this case for 13 years. Now the Waqf Board is entering into this case. That is why we have requested the commissioner to make us a party. We will tell the facts of this case to the court so that the matter does not get delayed. However, the situation will be clear on October 5 on whether to make them a party or not.