Delhi High Court Dismisses Waqf PIL

The India===Delhi High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the Save India Foundation, which challenged a 1980 notification by the India===Delhi Waqf Board declaring certain mosques in Jahangirpuri as Waqf properties. The court, led by Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia, found the petition lacked bona fide motive, was time-barred after 46 years, and sought to 'unnecessarily rake up the past'. The Save India Foundation, through its trustee Preet Singh, had argued that the land was acquired by the India===Delhi government in 1977, making the mosque structures illegal encroachments. However, the court upheld the India===Delhi Waqf Board's notification, emphasizing the importance of genuine public interest in PILs and the legal impermissibility of challenging decades-old statutory actions on 'flimsy grounds'.