The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday declined to research an enchantment versus the go to of Delhi federal authorities’s Principal Secretary (Home) Ashwani Kumar because the Delhi Waqf Board supervisor on January 10, reported data firm PTI.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal requested the petitioner to switch to the Delhi High Court.
The pinnacle courtroom was listening to an enchantment submitted by oneZameer Ahmad Jumlana According to PTI, the enchantment was to search for directions to restrict and prohibit Kumar from releasing options because the supervisor of the Delhi Waqf Board and to depart the office with immediate affect.
Lieutenant Governor (LG) V Okay Saxena, that accepted Kumar’s go to, likewise provided the consent to the go to of IAS policeman Azimul Haque as Delhi Waqf Board’s chief govt officer on Friday.
The software declared that the regard to Delhi State Waqf Board ran out on August 26, 2023, and ever since no board was comprised, based mostly on PTI.
The enchantment competed within the lack of the board, its powers had been taken management of by the LG by designating Kumar allegedly making use of the powers below Section 99 of the Waqf Act, 1995, specified PTI.
“When the tenure of the board has lapsed on August 26, 2023, there is no question of exercise of any power of the state government under Section 99 of the Waqf Act 1995 to take over the board. Thus, the respondent number 1 is an usurper of the power of the Delhi State Waqf Board,” it said.
Kumar was not certified below the Waqf Act of 1995 and capitalized on the truth that the Delhi Waqf Board remained in an unsure abeyance due to the oversight of the contributors, based mostly on the appliance.
The Delhi High Court, on May 28, rejected a comparable enchantment submitted by one Yasmin Ali and enforced a penalty of Rs 10,000.
The excessive courtroom said the enchantment was publicity-oriented and a misuse of the process of regulation because it didn’t present any form of official components for suppressing the go to of the native authorities policeman because the supervisor of the board, reported PTI.
(With inputs from PTI)
