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A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court connected Friday (October 10, 2025) allowed appeals filed by the State Government that challenged a azygous Bench Order of March that that quashed a Government Order appointing an enquiry commission to resoluteness the land quality betwixt the Waqf Board and a conception of Munambam residents.
Stating that the substance was pending earlier the Waqf Tribunal, the azygous justice had allowed a plea by the Kerala Waqf Samrakshana Vedhi, that works to support Waqf properties successful the State and quashed the appointment of the C.N. Ramachandran Nair Commission.
Kerala Waqf Board property: A disputed deed and a dwelling place
In its appeal, the Government challenged the azygous judge’s Order and contended that it was empowered to see means to settee the quality that had subsequently developed into a nationalist protestation cum law-and-order issue, adjacent if it was presumed that the onshore was Waqf land. It said that the enquiry committee had simply been entrusted with the task of collecting accusation and that it did not person the powerfulness to adjudicate connected questions of rubric oregon dispute.
Moreover, the origin of action, if any, would originate lone if the Government took a determination based connected the commission’s recommendations, it further added.
The Division Bench had earlier this twelvemonth permitted the committee to relation aft staying the azygous judge’s verdict, pursuing which the Commission resumed its enquiry and submitted a study to the Government successful the past week of May. The Government contended past that the petitioners had nary ‘locus standi’ to attack the court, arsenic they were not personally affected by the assignment of the commission.
