MOHAMMAD SHAH Vs. FASIHUDD IN ANSARI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE Judgment of the court was delivered by

(2.) THIS appeal marks the culmination of a series of acrimonious disputes that have been going on between a section of the Mahommedan community at Jabalpur and one Gulabshah and his son the defendant since the year 1880 about portions of land that adjoin a mosque in Jabalpur known as the Kotwali Masjid. It is now admitted that the masjid proper and the ground on which it is built is wakf property.

(3.) THE plaintiffs' case, as set out in the plaint, is that the masjid proper belongs to the Sunni community of Mahommedans of Jabalpur city and that the defendant was appointed its mutwalli by the District Judge of Jabalpur on 3/8/1927.