Take No Action On Notice To Mosques For Encroachment: High Court To Railways

"What kind of a notice is this? Some generic thing... is it being posted everywhere? The way it reads, it can be posted on any (building). It does not refer to any building, no date, no nothing," the court remarked.

The Delhi High Court today directed the Railways not to take any action pursuant to its notices pasted on two mosques on Tilak Marg and Babar Road for removal of "unauthorised" structures and "encroachment" from its land.

Justice Prateek Jalan granted time to the central government counsel, on his request, to take instructions on the petition by the Delhi Waqf Board which claimed that the notices were "generic" and the two mosques - Masjid Takia Babbar Shah near Railway Bridge on Tilak Marg and Masjid Bachchu Shah on Babar Marg, which is also known as Bengali Market Mosque, - are not unauthorised and the land does not belong to the Railways.

The court observed that the notices were not signed, did not mention the authority under which they were issued, and could be pasted on any structure.