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News Topical, Digital Desk : The Delhi High Court has taken a big step regarding the demolition of the structure around the 500-year-old Hazrat Bhure Shah Dargah located in Nizamuddin. The court found that the current stance of the Delhi Waqf Board is completely different from its own 2023 report. On this basis, the High Court has sent this matter back to the religious committee of the Delhi government, so that it can take a decision keeping in mind all the facts and aspects.
What is the whole matter?
Actually, a hearing was held on the petition of the Dargah's Mutawalli Yusuf Beg, in which he claimed that the Dargah is 500 years old and it was notified as Waqf land in the Delhi Gazette of 1976.
In April 2023, the PWD demolished a structure of the dargah during preparations for the G20 conference. Beg termed this action illegal and demanded Rs 10 lakh as compensation, which was rejected by the court.
Inspection and Wakf Board's contradictory stance
In June 2023, on the orders of the court, a team of PWD, MCD, District Magistrate, L&DO and Waqf Board also inspected the site. According to the Indian Express, in that report, most of the departments called it encroachment on public land, but the Waqf Board said that the dargah is completely legal and the demolition was illegal.
In a meeting of the religious committee in July 2023, it was found that the graves and mausoleums obstruct the movement of pedestrians. The committee suggested that these graves be shifted to some other place.
However, in May 2024, the Waqf Board changed its stance and called the committee's recommendations "just and sensitive". The board admitted that the gazette notification did not contain the exact boundary and map of the shrine.
Now what will happen after the High Court order?
Justice Sachin Dutta ordered on September 4 that the matter will go back to the religious committee. The committee will now take the final decision after hearing the arguments of the Waqf Board, other government agencies and petitioner Yusuf Baig. The court made it clear that any concrete step should be taken only after keeping in mind the new facts that have emerged among all the concerned parties.
Now the upcoming action of the religious committee will decide how this matter will be balanced between religious faith and public interest.
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