Supreme Court of India

Aliyathammuda Beethathebiyyappura Pookoya & Anr. v. Pattakal Cheriyakoya & Ors.

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Reported as [2019] 10 S.C.R. 961
Bench Mohan M. Shant Anagoudar and Ajay Rast Ogi JJ.
Decided 1 August 2019

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the appellants have not been able to establish that there was a breach in the respondents’ customary right of holding the post of mutawalli due to the formation of the committee in 1966 which existed till 1972 or due to the compromise decree which is declared as void.

Judgment, page 33

From the headnote

Muslim Law – Succession – T o the office of mutawalli – Exception to the general r ule against her editar y succession – Dispute per tains to the office of mutawalli of the Andrott Jumah mosque situated in Lakshadweep – Respondents, seniormost members of the Pattakal family , claim to be the descendants of one Saint Ubaidulla, stated to have built the mosque and was its first mutawalli – They claim that by customary tradition, the office of the mutawalli of the mosque is vested with their family– Appellants, representatives of r esidents of the Andrott Island claim that the mosque was built

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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