No activity on Sunehri Bagh Masjid at any point in the near future: NDMC tells Delhi High Court

Sunehri Masjid’s Imam has moved toward the High Court against NDMC’s public notification welcoming ideas/issues with destruction of the mosque.

The New Delhi Metropolitan Gathering (NDMC) told the Delhi High Court on Saturday that nothing will happen to Delhi’s Sunehri Bagh Masjid at any point in the near future.

Advocate Sriharsha Peechara showed up for the NDMC and expressed as of now, NDMC has simply given a public notification and welcomed ideas yet no choice can be taken until the perspectives on the Legacy Protection Panel (HCC) is taken.

The HCC is to be reconstituted since a portion of its individuals have surrendered. Nothing will happen at any point in the near future. The notification gave by us is just procedural, Peechara said.

The accommodation was made while an excursion seat of Equity Manoj Jain was hearing the supplication recorded by Abdul Aziz, imam of the Sunehri Bagh Masjid testing the NDMC’s public notification gave on December 24, 2023.

During the meeting, the Court additionally scrutinized the locus of the Imam to move toward the High Court when the property rests with the Delhi Waqf Board.

The Court, in the wake of hearing brief contentions, concluded the case to January 8.

NDMC had requested that the overall population give protests/ideas in regards to evacuation of Sunehri Bagh Masjid because of supposed gridlock nearby.

In his request, Aziz has contended that Sunehri Bagh Masjid is over 150-year-old and the NDMC’s case that it causes traffic in the space is off-base.

“The Mosque is an image of rich social legacy of the nation and till date multiple times namaz is being presented in a managed way during VVIP development. The presence of Legacy Building/Sunehri Bagh Masjid has never been an issue of any nature/direction or size rather a reference to aggregate development and improvement of the Lutyens,” the supplication expressed.

It battled that the whole Lutyens region appeared and settled around the Masjid a long time after it was fabricated and no unsettling influence was caused either to the mosque of the encompassing region.

“Shockingly the Mosque which is an image of social heritage went through hundreds of years till date to mix stylishly in its encompassing become casualty of fraudulent hypothesis of supposed gridlock by the Respondents.”