The Centre on Wednesday advised the Delhi High Court that fifty individuals chosen by the Waqf board will be allowed to supply prayers on the mosque within the Nizamuddin Markaz through the coming pageant season as soon as the names of these people are offered to the SHO of the world.
The submission was made earlier than Justice Mukta Gupta by the central authorities through the listening to of a plea searching for opening of the Nizamuddin Markaz the place the Tablighi Jamaat congregation was held amid the Covid-19 pandemic and has been locked since March 31 final yr.
Advocate Rajat Nair, showing for the Centre, advised the court docket that the Delhi Waqf Board has to ahead an software containing the 50 names to the Station House Officer (SHO) of the world and thereafter, these individuals alone could be allowed to enter the mosque to supply prayers.
The submission on behalf of the Centre was made after the Board, represented by senior advocate Ramesh Gupta and advocate Wajeeh Shafiq, urged the court docket to allow some people to hope on the mosque through the coming ‘shab-e-barat’ vacation on the finish of the week.
They stated solely the mosque could be used and never the madrasa situated there.
Gupta additionally urged the court docket to resolve the matter earlier than the holy month of Ramzan commences from April 13 as extra individuals would wish to provide prayers on the mosque throughout that point.
The court docket, thereafter, listed the matter for listening to on April 12.
The Board, in its plea, has contended that even after unlock-1 pointers permitted spiritual locations outdoors containment zones to be opened, the markaz — comprising the Masjid Bangley Wali, Madarsa Kashif-ul-uloom and connected hostel — continues to be locked up.
It has additional contended that even when the premises was a part of any felony investigation or trial, maintaining it “under lock as an out of bound area” was a “primitive method” of enquiry course of.
An FIR has been registered beneath the Epidemic Diseases Act, the Disaster Management Act, Foreigners Act and numerous provisions of the penal code in reference to the Tablighi Jamaat occasion held on the markaz and the next keep of foreigners there through the Covid-19 lockdown.