AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court, rejecting the four-week stay plea by the Mansa Masjid Trust, has cleared the way for partial demolition of a 400-year-old mosque in Ahmedabad to widen a road. The court ruled that the project serves 'public interest'.

The trust had challenged the road-widening notice issued by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). The notice had ordered the mosque authorities to peacefully vacate part of the premises in Saraspur to make way for a city development scheme.

The decision comes amid simmering tensions over earlier demolitions of historic Muslim religious sites in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district.

Justice Mauna M Bhatt, delivering the ruling, refused to stay the AMC’s order. The court also clarified that Waqf Act provisions do not apply in this case, as t

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