The Bombay High Court has fiercely lashed the Thane Municipal Corporation. The court expressed strong displeasure over the delay in breaking an illegal mosque. Justice AS Gadkari and a lotus account bench in Bombay High Court said that to follow the law Administration responsibility Is.
The Bombay High Court had given clear instructions in this matter earlier, yet no action was taken. The court clearly stated that there is no one above the law. Some Muslim groups are constantly opposing this, but the court bluntly said that the law cannot be allowed to be broken in the name of protest.
In this case, New Shri Swami Samarth Borivade Housing Company approached the court. The company has more than 18,000 square meters of land in Borivade village of Kasaravadwali. The company told Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) that one built on their land Illegal building To be broken When Thane Municipal Corporation investigated on 1 January 2025, it was found that it is a 3,600 square-foot ground-one mosque, including Namaz Hall. It is operated by Pardesi Baba Trust.
The mosque’s side said that it was formed when the area was under the Gram Panchayat, but no order was found for it in the records of Thane Municipal Corporation. After notice and hearing in the case, on 27 January, the Thane Municipal Corporation declared it illegal and ordered to break it. However, the other side reached the court and now the High Court has made it clear that the Thane Municipal Corporation should demolish this mosque as soon as possible.
Bombay High Court in its decision Said“In democracy, a person, group or organization cannot say that if anyone does this, the administration should strictly follow the law.
Pune Imambara’s Waqf status canceled, Bombay High Court’s big decision
Bombay High Court gave another major verdict of Haji Mohammad Jawad Ispahani Imambara Trust of Pune Waqf status canceled Done The Maharashtra State Waqf Tribunal considered it a Waqf organization in 2023, but now the High Court overturned the decision. Justice Sandeep V. Marne said that in 2016, the Waqf Board had wrongly registered it under Section 43 of the Waqf Act 1995. The court made it clear that only a trust does not become a Waqf by registration under the Maharashtra Public Trust Act 1950.
This of Pune Imambara The Muslim was registered as a public trust since 1953. After complaints of disturbances in the trust, there was a demand from the Waqf Board to make it a Waqf. The Waqf Board approved it in 2016, but the trust trustee went to the Waqf Tribunal against it. When the tribunal dismissed his petition in 2023, the matter reached the High Court. Now the court has asked the tribunal to hear the case afresh. The court also directed that the tribunal should take its own decision, without the influence of the High Court.
