Siddiq M. alias H. M. Siddiq Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind v. Mahant Suresh Das and Others

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2011 Supreme(Online)(SC) 145

SUPREME COURT
Aftab Alam, R. M. Lodha, JJ.
Siddiq M. alias H. M. Siddiq Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind v. Mahant Suresh Das and Others

Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: P. P. Rao
For the Respondents: R. C. Gubrele, B. K. Satija

Table of Content
1. overview of appeals and necessity for maintaining status quo. (Para 1 , 2 , 3)
2. previous cases influencing the current ruling on preservation of land. (Para 4 , 5)
3. court directives for procedural handling of related suits. (Para 6)
4. admission of various appeals for hearing with interim orders. (Para 12 , 13 , 15 , 16)

1. Civil Appeals Nos. 10866-67 of 2010
The appeals are admitted for hearing.

3. We, therefore, pass the following orders.

5. Further, as regards the land adjacent to the suit land which was the subject - matter of acquisition by the Central Government, the parties shall maintain status quo, as directed by the order of this Court in Mohd. Aslam v. Union of India , 2003 (4) SCC 1 vide paras 4 and 5 read with para 17 of the Report, which read as follows: (SCC pp. 7 & 11)
"4. In this proceeding, which is initiated as a public interest petition, several reliefs were claimed but after the interested parties were impleaded and their pleadings were put forth, what has crystallised is as to the manner in which the adjacent land should be preserved till the final decision in the title suit pending in the High Court of Allahabad. This Court, on 13-3-2002 Moh