Supreme Court of India

Rashid Wali Beg v. Farid Pindari & Ors.

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Reported as [2021] 13 S.C.R. 1
Bench Hemant Gupta and V . Ramasubramanian JJ.
Decided 28 October 2021

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, the appeal is allowed and the judgment and decree of the High Court are set aside.

Judgment, page 47

From the headnote

Waqf Act, 1995 – ss.83, 85, as amended by Amendment Act 27 of 2013 – Suit for permanent injunction in respe ct of a waqf property filed before civil court, if maintainable – Held: Words in s.83(1) “any dispute, question or other matter relating to a waqf or waqf property” cover any dispute, question or other matter relating to a waqf property – Court cannot do violence to th e express language of the statute – s.83(1) even as it stood before the amendment, provided for the determination by the Waqf Tr ibunal, of any dispute, question or other matter relating to a waqf and a waqf property –

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