* 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."
"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.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
IIT is a tech gladiatorial arena, a place I would have happily self-confessed my inability to enter.
It is a place where the most meritorious students from every strata, are confronted with peers far more gifted than them, and an academic rigour which tests the best.
Into this cauldron, a bunch of entitled stupids decide that merit CAN BE COMPROMISED in the name of equality and push many Solankis to fight an unequal battle.
In a so-called politically correct woke world, this will be blasphemy to the highest degree.
Those who cast all kinds of aspersion on 'merit' in the IIT's should ask themselves why companies across the world beat a path to the IITs or why their alumni now head a vast number of Fortune 500 companies.
Surely, there is no world-wide casteist conspiracy.
The simple fact is that the IITs are an academic gladiatorial arena in which no quarter is given
That holds good for students of all castes.
It is preparing students for a kind of "Tech Olympics". Lowering standards of admission is the stupidest possible thing.
#RipeForReform
"let’s talk about the Honourable Supreme Court of India, where 38% of the incumbent judges have deep family connections in the Judiciary & Govt, which means 12 of 32 judges are either related to a former Judge or to a political leader."
"Prima Facie, it feels like Judiciary is being kept hostage by a few selected families, all because of the methodology of selecting SC Judges that is an appointment by a collegium & not by merit or any examination"
"data of HC judges also give rise to suspicions of nepotism"
"Here is the list of Supreme Court Judges who have familial connections in the Judiciary or politics:
U. U. Lalit – Next Chief Justice of India, Son of UR Lalit, former add. Judge of Bombay High Court and Senior Counsel in the Supreme Court"
“Hinduism is said to divide people and in contrast Islam is said to bind people together.
This is only a half-truth"
"For Islam divides as inexorably as it binds.
Islam is a close corporation and the distinction that it makes between Muslims and non-Muslims is a very real, very positive and very alienating distinction.
The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man"
"It is brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only.
There is a fraternity, but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation.
For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt and enmity"
"Rizvi, the former chairman of the Shia Central Board of Waqf (Trust) in the state, filed the petition with the apex court last month claiming that parts of the Quran are "provocative of violence" and incite people to "jihad," which he interpreted as armed struggle."
“It is an absolutely frivolous petition,” said the court bench headed by Justice Rohinton F Nariman, according to local English daily Hindustan Times."