Court miffed by encroachment on demolished sites

South Delhi mosque demolished but encroachments continue

GN Bureau | December 20, 2011



Miffed over continued violation of its order on removal of all encroachments on a government land by namazis at Jangpura in south Delhi, the Delhi high court on Monday rapped Noor Charitable Society and the Delhi wakf board directing them to show proof by December 22 of removal of all the encroachments in form of photographs.

The high court on Januray 17 allowed to devotees to offer namaz five times a day at the site of a demolished mosque directing the DDA to allow only 10 devotees to perform the prayers.

DDA on January 12 demolished the mosque that was illegally built on the public land. The devotees, however, claimed that the land belonged to the wakf board and the mosque named 'Noor Masjid' was 35 years old.

“Once again, Noor Charitable Society and the Delhi waqf board assure that the order dated January 17, 2011, shall be complied with in letter and spirit. It is undertaken by them to produce photographs to show that the temporary structure at the site is removed,” the judge said.

“It is also assured that only 10 people shall offer namaz at the site, five times a day and after offering their prayers, they shall leave the site so that there is no occupation of the site,” added justice Sanghi.

The court’s direction came following a complaint by the Jangpura RWA president Monu Chadha who alleged that huge crowd assembled at the mosque on a daily basis to offer prayers and the premises continued to be occupied by namazis 24 hours in violation of repeated court orders. The land had been earmarked for construction of a community hall.

Lawyer RK Saini Saini told the court that all sides had brought “disrepute” to the honour of the court by allowing "willful violation of the court orders".

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