The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday declined to analyze an appeal versus the visit of Delhi federal government’s Principal Secretary (Home) Ashwani Kumar as the Delhi Waqf Board manager on January 10, reported information company PTI.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal asked the petitioner to transfer to the Delhi High Court.
The pinnacle court was listening to an appeal submitted by oneZameer Ahmad Jumlana According to PTI, the appeal was to look for instructions to limit and restrict Kumar from releasing features as the manager of the Delhi Waqf Board and to leave the workplace with prompt impact.
Lieutenant Governor (LG) V K Saxena, that accepted Kumar’s visit, likewise offered the consent to the visit of IAS policeman Azimul Haque as Delhi Waqf Board’s chief executive officer on Friday.
The application declared that the regard to Delhi State Waqf Board ran out on August 26, 2023, and ever since no board was comprised, based on PTI.
The appeal competed in the lack of the board, its powers were taken control of by the LG by designating Kumar allegedly making use of the powers under Section 99 of the Waqf Act, 1995, specified PTI.
“When the tenure of the board has lapsed on August 26, 2023, there is no question of exercise of any power of the state government under Section 99 of the Waqf Act 1995 to take over the board. Thus, the respondent number 1 is an usurper of the power of the Delhi State Waqf Board,” it stated.
Kumar was not qualified under the Waqf Act of 1995 and capitalized on the reality that the Delhi Waqf Board remained in an uncertain abeyance because of the oversight of the participants, based on the application.
The Delhi High Court, on May 28, rejected a comparable appeal submitted by one Yasmin Ali and enforced a penalty of Rs 10,000.
The high court stated the appeal was publicity-oriented and a misuse of the procedure of regulation as it did not provide any kind of legitimate factors for suppressing the visit of the local government policeman as the manager of the board, reported PTI.
(With inputs from PTI)
