Supreme Court of India

Punjab Wakf Board v. Sham Singh Harike

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Reported as [2019] 2 S.C.R. 61
Bench Ashok Bhushan and K. M. Joseph JJ.
Decided 7 February 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussions, we allow Civil Appeal No.92 of 2019 (Punjab Wakf Board vs.

Judgment, page 36

From the headnote

Wakf Act, 1995 : s.83 – Jurisdiction of Wakf Tribun al to entertain suit – Held: The constitution of Wakf Tribunal i s for the determination of any dispute, question or other matter relating to wakf or wakf property under the Act, 1995 – s.83 relates to bar of jurisdiction of Civil Court, the relevant words are “any dispute, question or other matter relating to a wakf or wakf propert y” which is required by or under this Act to be determined by the Trib unal – Thus, bar of jurisdiction of Civil Court is confine d only to those matters which are required to be determined by the Tribunal un der

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 referred to

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