Supreme Court of India

Telangana State Wakf Board & Anr. v. Mohamed Muzafar

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Reported as [2021] 8 S.C.R. 63
Bench Hemant Gupta J.
Decided 3 August 2021

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the judgment dat ed 12.10.2012 passed by the Wakf tribunal in O.S. No. 126/2006 was rendered in a suit which was maintainable before the Wakf tribunal and it had the jurisdiction to do so.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Wakf Act, 1995: ss. 6, 7, 83 and 85 – Disputes rega rding wakfs properties – Power of tribunal to determine – On fa cts, suit by Wakf Board before the Wakf tribunal seeking evictio n of tenant from property belonging to Wakf Institution – Case of the tenant that suit property not a wakf property and extent o f land also disputed – Tribunal held the suit properties to be the property belonging to the Wakf institution and directed the tenant to vacate the suit porperties – High Court set aside the order holding that the suit was not maintainable before the Wakf tribunal – On appeal, held:

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