Two Delhi-based sisters have moved the Allahabad🔯 High Court claiming the owner🌠ship of five-acre land allotted for the construction of a mosque in Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya.
The♌ land was allotted to Uttar Pradesh S🌱unni Central Waqf Board for the construction of Ayodhya mosque in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.
The petition was filed 👍before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad HC and is likely to come up for hearing on February 8.
Rani Kapoor alias Rani Baluja and Rama Rani Punjabi have said in the writ petition that their fath🍨er Gyan Chandra Punjabi had come to India during partition in 1947 from Punjab and settled in Faizabad (now A😼yodhya) district.
They have claimed that their father was allotted 28-acre land in Dhannipur village by the Nazul Department for five years which he continued to possess beyond that period. Later, his name wa𒐪s included in the revenue records, the petitioners have said.
However, his name was struck down from the records against which their father filed an appeal before the Additional Commissioner, Ayodhya, which was allowed, they have clai🐠med.
The pe༺titioners further claimed that the consolidation officer again removed their father's name from the records during consolidation proceedings.
Against the order of the consolidation officer, an appeal was preferred before the Settlement Officer of Consolidation, Sadar, Ayodhya, but without considering the said petition, the aut🅠horities have allotted five-acre of their 28-acre land to the Waqf Board for the constructing of mosque, they said.
The petitioners have demanded the authorities be restrained from transferring the land to the Sunni Waqf Board till the pendency of dispute before the﷽ sett🔯lement officer.
The state government has allotted five-acre land to the Sunni Waqf Board in Dhannipur village for cons♏truction of a mosque in compliance with Supreme Co🉐urt direction on November 7, 2019, in the Ram Janmabhoomi- Babri mosque title suit.
With PTI inputs
