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Residents drag wakf board to court over prayers
Thursday December 22, 2011 11:09:08 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Residents of south Delhi's Jangpura area Thursday told the Delhi
High Court that the Delhi Wakf Board and a charitable society
failed to comply with the court's earlier order which allowed only
10 devotees to offer prayer at the site of a mosque razed by the
Delhi Development Authority in January.
The board and Noor Charitable Society countered by saying they had
complied with the court's order.
The Jungpura Residents Welfare Association (JRWA) presented some
photographs of the area before Justice Vipin Sanghi and said that
"though the banner and the tin structure have been removed,
occupation is still there".
Disagreeing with the contentions of JRWA, counsel for the board
and the charitable society said that all structures from the site
had been removed.
The court after hearing both the parties ordered the board and
charitable society to remove the box from the site and also
directed to keep the prayer mats at some other place.
The court Dec 14 had pulled up the board and the charitable
society for failing to comply with its earlier order.
DDA had earlier demolished the illegal structure constructed on
public land in Jungpura area, leading to protests and
stone-pelting by angry people.
The DDA assured the court that the Noor Charitable Society, which
ran the mosque, could be given 400 square metre land just 100
metres away from where the previous structure stood.
The court was hearing a petition filed by advocate R.K. Saini on
behalf of the residents.
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