The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday, September 23, dismissed a plea by the Manch Masjid Trust and refused to grant a four-week stay, clearing the way for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to partially demolish the 400-year-old mosque in Saraspur for a road-widening project, citing public interest.

The Mansa Masjid Trust had challenged a notice from the AMC which had ordered the mosque leaders to empty parts of the area a road development.

Justice Mauna M Bhatt delivered the ruling, refusing to stay the AMC’s order, observing that the Waqf Act does not apply in this case because the Municipal Commissioner acted under special powers granted by the Gujarat

Provincial Municipal Corporations (GPMC) Act, making the plea legally flawed.

The trust had challenged that the mosque is believ

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