A major issue that had kept about 600 families in limbo for years has been resolved with the High Court's verdict that declaring the Munambam land as a waqf was legally wrong and unenforceable. This is the property that a person named Muhammad Siddique Sait handed over to the management of Farook College, Kozhikode in 1950 under a gift deed. The division bench comprising Justice Sushrut Aravind Dharmadhikari and Justice VM Shyamkumar ruled in the appeal that the deed of the property given as a gift cannot be considered a waqf. The division bench also set aside the single bench order that had quashed the government's appointment of Justice CN Ramachandran Nair as the Munambam Commission.

The High Court also observed that if the Munambam land was declared as a waqf, then the Taj Mahal, the

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