RAZIA SULTANA Vs. PUNJAB WAKF BOARD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS order would dispose of CWP Nos. 2538 of 2005, 3263 of 2005 and 8119 of 2005. The facts are being taken from CWP No. 8319 of 2005.

(2.) THE Punjab Wakf Board (for short the Board) was superseded on 11.11.1981 and thereafter no fresh Board was constituted. 20 years later CWP No. 8166 of 2001 was filed for issuing directions to the respondents to constitute the Board. By Notification dated 1.8.2003 the State of Punjab established a new Punjab Wakf Board (in succession to the erstwhile Board, the jurisdiction of which extended to Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh). By another notification of the same date an Administrator was appointed for the new Board.

(3.) ULTIMATELY on 15.6.2005 the State Government issued a notice under Section 99(1) of the Wakf Act, 1995 (for short 'the Act') requiring all the six members to show cause as to why the Board should not be superseded. All the members filed their replies and subsequently by order dated 13.7.2005 the Board was superseded. It is these meetings and the proceedings thereof which are the subject matter of these petitions.