DDA offers land to shift mosque
The Waqf Board on Monday told the Delhi high court that the trust, running the alleged illegal mosque at Jangpura which was razed, has been offered a piece of land by the DDA.
The counsel for the Delhi Waqf Board told a bench of Justice G.S. Sistani that the DDA agency has offered the Noor Charitable Society a piece of land measuring 400 square meters.
The court, which is hearing a contempt petition filed by the Jangpura Residents’ Welfare Association (JRWA) against the DDA for not re-claiming its land after demolishing the mosque, has posted the matter for further hearing on August 4.
The Waqf Board has said that the DDA has demanded `91 lakhs for the plot, which is on the higher side.
Earlier, the DDA, which razed the mosque to protect itself from being prosecuted for contempt, said, it was willing to offer an alternative plot for re-construction of the mosque for an amicable settlement of the dispute.
Justice Sistani had asked DDA to reclaim its land by constructing a boundary wall on the site where the illegal mosque was razed in pursuance of the Delhi HC’s order.
The court, however, had allowed 10 members of the community to offer “namaz” for two months at the site till a solution was arrived at by the parties concerned.
On January 12, the DDA demolished the structure and later sought dropping of the contempt proceedings in the HC after “an unqualified apology” for its failure to reclaim the land earlier.
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