The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday rejected the petition of two Delhi-based sisters who claimed to own the land given to construct a mosque at Dhannipur in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.
The petitioner’s counsel had sought the withdrawal of the Petition, which was accepted by the bench.
Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Manish Kumar were hearing the case. On behalf of the government, Additional Advocate General Ramesh Kumar Singh opposed the petition saying the gata number of land allotted for the mosque in Dhannipur is different from the numbers mentioned in the petition. The petition is therefore based on erroneous facts and is liable to be dismissed.
On this, the petitioner’s counsel H.G.S. Parihar pleaded his mistake and demanded the withdrawal of the Petition. The bench dismissed the petition.
Earlier, the two sisters had said in their claim that we have no problem with the mosque. We only want the Court to get our land planted under the supervision of competent authorities. Both sisters claimed that the local administration allotted their land to the mosque without taking permission from them.
Of the two sisters, who had filed a petition in the Court, elder sister Rama Rani Punjabi (59) lives in Old Gupta Colony in Delhi’s Model Town while younger sister Rani Kapoor Punjabi alias Rani Baluja (51) lives in NDPL Colony, Shalimar Bagh and works in a company.
The sisters claimed their father Gyanchand had come to India from Lahore, including the Punjabi family, at the time of Partition and had been allotted 29 acres in Sherpur Jafar Dhannipur village near Faizabad around 1948-49. The sisters had also filed cases objecting to the construction of a police station, cold storage and a veterinary hospital on some part of this land adjacent to the Lucknow-Gorakhpur highway.
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Meanwhile, the district administration of Ayodhya had said to submit all the documents in the Court, denying the claims of these sisters. Rajesh Kumar Pandey, the Settlement Officer of the Consolidation Department, released the statement after presenting the evidence after the claims of the sisters. He has said that the disputed land that the two sisters of Delhi are referring to is from Sherpur Jafar i.e. another village, not from Dhannipur.