#LawForTheLawless

Using Law To Frustrate:

* Waqf Masjid and UP Sunni Central Waqf Board, had challenged a November 2017 Allahabad high court order, which had given them three months to move the mosque out of the premises."

rediff.com/news/report/sc…
Intentionally irrational:

"Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the management committee of the mosque, said the mosque has been there since the 1950s and it cannot be just asked to move out."
Facts & concessions:

"the land was a lease property, which was terminated, and they can't claim it as a matter of right to continue."

"Justices MR Shah & CT Ravikumar... allowed the petitioners to make a representation to the UP govt for allotment of land nearby for the mosque"
"grant three months time to demolish construction in question by the petitioners"

Off-track & arrogant:

"The Govt changed in 2017 and everything changed. A PIL is filed 10 days after the new govt. was formed"
"A PIL is filed 10 days after the new government was formed. We have no problems with shifting to an alternative place as long as they give it to us,"

Legal tricks:
""Twice there were renewal applications & there was no whisper at all that the mosque was constructed and it was
used for the public. They sought renewal saying it was needed for residential purposes"

And then we speak of Rule of Law, of Courts, of JUSTICE... where at every twist & turn, the resourceful & the mendacious can twist it to their own purposes.

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