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2022 Supreme(SC) 1252

K. M. JOSEPH, HRISHIKESH ROY
Maharashtra State Board of Wakfs – Appellant
Versus
Shaikh Yusuf Bhai Chawla – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the parties : Mr. Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, AOR Mr. Anil Anturkar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhay Anturkar, Adv. Mr. Harshvardhan Suryavanshi, Adv. Mr. Tejasvi Kumar, Adv. Mr. Shrirang Katneshwarkar, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Kulkarni, Adv. Mr. Syed Sarfaraz Karim, Adv. Mr. Ambar Qamaruddin, AOR Mr. Gopal Shankarnarayan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Javed R. Sheikh, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Irshad Hanif, AOR Mr. Aarif Ali, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Shivani Viz, Adv. Mr. Mujahid Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Rizwan Ahmad, Adv. Mr. Syed Ahmed Saud, Adv. Mr. Daanish Ahmed Syed, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Parvez Dabas, Adv. Mr. Uzmi Jameel Husain, Adv. Mr. Aqib Baig, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Shahib, Adv. Mr. Mujeebuddin Khan, Adv. M/S. Shakil Ahmad Syed, AOR Mr. S. M. Jadhav, Adv. Mr. Brij Kishor Shah, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Kumar Pandey, Adv. Ms. Shivani Rautela, Adv. Ms. Apurva, Adv. Mr. Satayam Singh, Adv. Mr. Vinay Navare, Sr. Adv. Mr. Yusuf Baugwala, Adv. Ms. Sana Baugwala, Adv. Ms. Gwen Karthika, Adv. Ms. Abha R. Sharma, AOR Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR Mr. Rahul Chitnis, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Bharat Bhagla, Adv. Mr. Gagan Gupta, AOR Mrs. Bina Gupta, AOR Mr. K. N. Rai, AOR Mr. Shirish K. Deshpande, AOR Ms. Rucha Pravin Mandlik, Adv. Mr. Mohit Gautam, Adv. Mr. A. Radhakrishnan, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR Mr. Nilakanta Nayak, Adv. Mr. Amit Yadav, Adv. Mr. Sakya Singha Chaudhuri, AOR Mr. P. N. Puri, AOR Mr. Rudreshwar Singh, Adv. Mr. Kaushik Poddar, AOR Ms. Isha Singh, Adv. Mr. Harish N. Salve, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dama Sheshadri Naidu, Sr. Adv. Mr. K. R. Sasiprabhu, AOR Mr. Mahesh Sahasranaman, Adv. Mr. Amey Nabar, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Sharma A.S., Adv. Ms. Shivali Chaudhary, Adv. Mr. Tushar Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Prakhar Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Mr. Amol Chitale, Adv. Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Mr. Yusuf Hatim Muchhala, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR Mr. Pravartak Pathak, Adv. Ms. Nandini Deshpande, Adv. Mr. Yuvraj Satpute, Adv. Ms. Ankita Chaudhary, AOR Mr. Sagheer A. Khan, Adv. Mr. G. D. Shaikh, Adv. Mr. Saif Zia, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Ambar Qamaruddin, AOR Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Murtaza Kachwala, Sr. Adv. Mr. Moinuddin Algaus Shaikh, Adv. Mr. Abeezar Faizullabhoy, Adv. Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv. Ms. Ekta Bhasin, Adv. Mr. Mustafa Hussain, Adv. Mr. L. Nidhi Ram Sharma, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Mr. Alok Kumar Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Desam Sudhakarareddy, Adv. Ms. Sujata Kurdukar, AOR Mr. Nitin S. Tambwekar, Adv. Mr. Seshatalpa Sai Bandaru, Adv. Mr. K. Rajeev, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG. Mr. K. M. Natraj, ASG. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Adv. Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Mayank Pandey, Adv. Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv. Mr. Nakul Chengappa K.K., Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Victor Das, Adv. Ms. Anwesha Padhi, Adv. Mr. Madhavi Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Kamakshi Sehgal, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. K. K. Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Javed R. Shaikh, Adv. Mr. Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, AOR Ms. Suhasani Sen, Adv. Mr. Mahesh P. Shinde, Adv. Ms. Rucha A. Pande, Adv. Mr. Veeraragavan M., Adv. Mr. Kamran Shaikh, Adv. Mr. Sunil C. Chung, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Ms. Yamini Sharma, Adv. Ms. Niharika Dewivedi, Adv. Ms. Shweta Sand, Adv. Mr. C. M. Jha, Adv. Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mrs. Yugandhara Pawar Jha, AOR Mr. Kunal Verma, Adv. Mr. Ashwin Nair, Adv. Ms. Lavanya Dhawan, Adv. Mr. Ritik Gupta, Adv. Mr. Punit Khanna, Adv. Mr. Pranay Thite, Adv. Mr. Kunal Verma, AOR Mr. Praveen Kumar, AOR Mr. Ankit Yadav, AOR Mr. Tarun Mehra, Adv. Mr. Gaijala Bhaskar, Adv. Mr. Ratnesh Sharma, Adv.

Table of Content
1. background on the wakf act and its implications (Para 3 , 4 , 5)
2. formation of the wakf board and initial challenges (Para 6 , 7 , 8)
3. arguments against the board's constitution and its legality (Para 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17)
4. court's analysis of the legality and duties of the board (Para 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 30)
5. final conclusions regarding the approval and authority of the board (Para 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51)

JUDGMENT :

1. Leave granted.

2. Since the common questions arises in all these appeals, we deem it appropriate to dispose of the same by the following common judgment.

3. The facts leading up to the litigation need to be referred to at the very beginning.

The Parliament enacted WAKF ACT , 1995, (hereinafter referred to for the purpose of brevity as, ‘the Act’). By order dated 01.12.1997, the Government of State of Maharashtra (hereinafter referred to as the State’) appointed a Survey Commissioner purporting to act under Section 4 of the Act. A Wakf Tribunal was constituted at Aurangabad by order dated 30.10.2000. On 04.01.2002, the State incorpor


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