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Damaged operation aft Demolition thrust carried retired by Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) of an alleged amerciable country by Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid, Turkman Gate, adjacent Ramlila Maidan inn New Delhi connected Thursday, January 08, 2026. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap
Terming it a “sheer misuse of PIL jurisdiction”, the Delhi High Court connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) came down heavy connected an NGO for repeatedly filing nationalist involvement litigations alleging encroachments by mosques successful the city. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia, portion proceeding 2 abstracted PILs filed by the Save India Foundation, observed that the organisation was misusing the Court’s PIL jurisdiction and was raising lone “selective” issues successful society. The Bench questioned wherefore the NGO was acrophobic lone with encroachments of 1 peculiar kind. It noted that the frequence of akin PILs filed by the aforesaid organisation was precocious and “disturbing”. “Are you seeking your sanction successful the Guinness Book of World Records?” the tribunal remarked, asking the NGO to besides look retired for radical struggling for basal amenities and to widen assistance to them. In the PILs, the NGO had alleged encroachments by a mosque and a madrasa successful southbound Delhi, claiming that the onshore belonged to the government. Counsel representing the Delhi authorities besides submitted earlier the tribunal that the structures mentioned successful the PILs were encroachments. In its representation, the Delhi Waqf Board said that the mosque was a notified structure. It added that the Delhi Development Authority had besides participated successful the demarcation of the land. The tribunal posted the cases for further proceeding connected January 21.
Published - January 14, 2026 09:50 p.m. IST
