Recently on the 3rd of February, Delhi based sisters filed a petition in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court (HC) over Ram Ayodhya temple land.
The two sisters claimed the ownership of the five acre land allotted to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board. The land was given to the board as the replacement of the original Ram Janmabhoomi for the construction of a mosque in Ayodhya.
The decision was taken by the Supreme Court in 2019, which resolved the years long dispute of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.
Sisters identified as Rani Kapoor and Rani Rama Rani Punjabi in their writ petition said that their father Gyan Chandra Punjabi had come to India during partition in 1947 from Punjab and settled in Faizabad (now Ayodhya) district. They said, their father was allotted 28-l acre land in the Dhannipur village by the Nazul Department for five years which he continued to possess beyond that period. Later, his name was included in the revenue records also.
However, his name was struck down from the records after which their father filed an appeal before the Additional Commissioner, Ayodhya.
The petitioners further claimed that the consolidation officer again removed their father’s name from the records during the consolidation proceedings.
To oppose the same, their father filed an appeal before the Settlement Officer of Consolidation, Sadar in Ayodhya.
However, without considering the said petition and concluding the filed appeal, the SC allotted five acre of their 28 acre land to the Sunni Waqf Board.
The two sisters now demanded to restrain their orders of transferring the 5 acres land until the dispute over 28 acre land is before the settlement officer.
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court is scheduled to hear the matter on the 8th of February.
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