The Court docket handed the order on a petition moved by one Ahsan Ali towards sealing of a mosque in Muzaffarnagar district.
Ali submitted that he’s a lawful proprietor of a plot of land in a village in Muzaffarnagar. He had bought the land from one Praveen Kumar Jain in 2019 by means of a duly registered sale deed.
It was submitted that authorities lately sealed the mosque constructed on the land after the house owners had began elevating a boundary round it. The motion was taken on the bottom that the development is illegitimate and that no prior permission was obtained from the competent authority.
Petitioner’c counsel, advocate Jagdish Prasad Mishra, stated that no discover or alternative of listening to was afforded to him previous to sealing of the premises.
The Court docket then requested the State to reply to the plea and apprise it in regards to the regulation beneath which the motion was taken.
“Let particular directions, supported by an affidavit, be obtained by the State and positioned earlier than this Court docket on the subsequent date of listening to,” it ordered.
