Delhi High Court Dismisses PIL Challenging 1980 Waqf Notification over 46-Year Delay

The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a PIL filed by Save India Foundation challenging a 1980 notification of the Delhi Waqf Board declaring three Jahangirpuri mosques as Waqf properties.

A Bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia held that the 46-year delay showed a lack of bona fides and termed the attempt an unnecessary raking up of the past.

Questioning the maintainability, the Waqf Board called the plea an abuse of process.

The Bench reiterated Supreme Court principles that frivolous PILs must be “nipped in the bud.”

[Save India Foundation v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi & Ors.]