PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 2468 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 2468 of 2025 Mo. Khateeb .....Petitioner(s) Versus State of U.P. and 5 others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Jitendra Singh, Sonam Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : Jagdish Pathak, S.C., Azad Rai Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J. 1. This petition purportedly in public interest has been filed by the petitioner claiming himself to be Secretary of the Samiti Waqf Karbala, seeking a direction to respondent nos. 2 & 3 not to interfere into the property of Karbala (registered before U.P. Sunni Central Waqf Board, Lucknow) situated at Gata No. 751 in Village Akbarpur Churai, Gram Panchayat Akbarpur Churai, Tehsil Khaga, District Fatehpur. 2. Once the claim made in the petition is that the property in question is registered with the U.P. Sunni Central Waqf Board, Lucknow, filing of a petition in the nature of public interest, cannot be countenanced. The authorities under the Waqf Act are competent enough to protect the property. 3. Consequently, no case for entertaining the PIL is made out, the petition is, therefore, dismissed. (Kshitij Shail