PUNJAB WAKF BOARD Vs. SHAM SINGH HARIKE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These two appeals having been filed against two separate judgments of the Punjab and Haryana High Court allowing the Civil Revisions filed by the respondents have been heard together and are being decided by this common judgment.

(2.) Brief facts giving rise to the above appeals which are necessary to be noticed for deciding these appeals are:

(3.) The respondent aggrieved by the order dated 17.04.2009 filed Civil Revision in the High Court. The High Court relying on the judgment of Ramesh Gobindram(dead) through LRs. v. Sugra Humayun Mirza Wakf, (2010) 8 SCC 726, allowed the Revision. The High Court held that since the appellant is a nonmuslim, the Wakf Tribunal has no jurisdiction in the matter and it is only the Civil Court which had the jurisdiction in the present dispute. The appellant aggrieved by the said judgment dated 20.09.2010 has come up in this appeal.