The Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed against the allotment of land in Ayodhya s Dhannipur village for the construction of a mosque, following the Supreme Court verdict in the.
Allahabad HC dismisses plea against Ayodhya mosque land allotment
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Lucknow, Feb 8 : The Allahabad High Court s Lucknow bench on Monday dismissed a petition filed against the allotment of land in Dhannipur village in Ayodhya for the construction of a mosque, following the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute.
The petition had been filed by two Delhi-based sisters on February 3, claiming ownership of the five-acre land allotted to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board for the mosque.
Appearing for the state, Additional Advocate General Ramesh Kumar Singh had opposed the plea, saying the plot numbers allotted for the mosque are different from those mentioned in the petition.
The Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed against the allotment of land in Ayodhya s Dhannipur village for the construction of a mosque, following the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. Two Delhi-based sisters had moved the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on February 3, claiming ownership of the five-acre land allotted to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board for the mosque. Appearing for the state, Additional Advocate General Ramesh Kumar Singh had opposed the plea, saying the plot numbers allotted for the mosque are different from those the petition is filed about.
Updated Feb 04, 2021 | 08:02 IST
The petitioners have demanded the authorities be restrained from transferring the land to the Sunni Waqf Board till the pendency of dispute before the settlement officer. Blueprint of Ayodhya mosque to replace Babri Masjid, released by Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation. | Photo Credit: PTI
Lucknow: Two Delhi-based sisters have moved the Allahabad High Court claiming the ownership of five-acre land allotted for the construction of a mosque in Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya.
The land was allotted to Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board for the construction of Ayodhya mosque in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case. The petition was filed before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad HC and is likely to come up for hearing on February 8.
Source: The Tribune India
Two Delhi-based sisters have moved the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, claiming the ownership of the five-acre land allotted to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board for the construction of a mosque in Ayodhya, in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.
The petition was filed before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Wednesday and is likely to come up for hearing on February 8.
Rani Kapoor a.k.a Rani Baluja and Rama Rani Punjabi have said in the writ petition that their father Gyan Chandra Punjabi had come to India during partition in 1947 from Punjab and settled in Faizabad (now Ayodhya) district.