Mumbai: The Waqf tribunal in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad) on Tuesday, put a stay on Mumbai's Jama Masjid trust from appointing a new mutawali (trustee) till the tribunal disposes an appeal by trustee Shuaib Khateeb challenging his expulsion from the body managing the city's most important mosque.

Khateeb had filed a suit in the tribunal, seeking a declaration that the resolution passed by the trust on September 28 and a notice on October 8 issued by other trustees expelling him, be quashed and set aside.

Asking for temporary injunction against the expulsion order, Khateeb pleaded that the defendants be injuncted from restraining him from performing his duty as a mutawalli and from attending the office of the trust and to fill up the post of trustee/mutawalli in his pl

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