NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought reaction from the Delhi govt on a petition challenging the appointment of arguable Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan as chairperson of Delhi Wakf Board on the grounds of alleged corruption and irregularities committed through him throughout his previous tenure.
The apex court docket was once listening to an attraction filed against the November 16, 2018 order of the Delhi prime court docket which had mentioned that any relief beneath the Delhi Wakf Rules could be sought through coming near the tribunal.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sasnjiv Khanna additionally issued notices to Khan and Delhi Wakf Board to reply to the petition challenging the prime court docket order and the allegations raised in it.
The petition filed through Mohd Irshad, a north Delhi resident, alleged that throughout the previous tenure of Khan from March 12, 2016 to October 7, 2016 as the member and chairperson of the Delhi Wakf board, there have been allegations of huge corruption, irregularities and illegalities against him.
He submitted that due to alleged illegalities committed through Khan, two participants of the board had tendered resignation to the lieutenant governor on October 5, 2016.
Later, the L-G through an order of October 7, 2016 had revoked the March 11, 2016 order in which the board was once reconstituted.
Advocates Prashant Bhushan and Pranav Sachdeva submitted that the arguable AAP MLA was once appointed as the member and chairperson of the Delhi Wakf Board in violation of the main of 'impeccable integrity and institutional integrity' laid down through the apex court docket.
The petitioner submitted that on the findings of a three-member committee set up to evaluation the legality and propriety of all movements taken through Khan as the board's chairman, the CBI had registered a grievance against him beneath Prevention of Corruption Act and phase 120B of the Indian penal code for conspiracy.
"Appointment of such a person with tainted and dubious character as chairperson of a pious and religious body like the Delhi Wakf Board is in gross violation of all sorts of propriety and impinges Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution which inter alia provides the people of India the right to live in a corruption and criminal free society," the petition mentioned.
The apex court docket was once listening to an attraction filed against the November 16, 2018 order of the Delhi prime court docket which had mentioned that any relief beneath the Delhi Wakf Rules could be sought through coming near the tribunal.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sasnjiv Khanna additionally issued notices to Khan and Delhi Wakf Board to reply to the petition challenging the prime court docket order and the allegations raised in it.
The petition filed through Mohd Irshad, a north Delhi resident, alleged that throughout the previous tenure of Khan from March 12, 2016 to October 7, 2016 as the member and chairperson of the Delhi Wakf board, there have been allegations of huge corruption, irregularities and illegalities against him.
He submitted that due to alleged illegalities committed through Khan, two participants of the board had tendered resignation to the lieutenant governor on October 5, 2016.
Later, the L-G through an order of October 7, 2016 had revoked the March 11, 2016 order in which the board was once reconstituted.
Advocates Prashant Bhushan and Pranav Sachdeva submitted that the arguable AAP MLA was once appointed as the member and chairperson of the Delhi Wakf Board in violation of the main of 'impeccable integrity and institutional integrity' laid down through the apex court docket.
The petitioner submitted that on the findings of a three-member committee set up to evaluation the legality and propriety of all movements taken through Khan as the board's chairman, the CBI had registered a grievance against him beneath Prevention of Corruption Act and phase 120B of the Indian penal code for conspiracy.
"Appointment of such a person with tainted and dubious character as chairperson of a pious and religious body like the Delhi Wakf Board is in gross violation of all sorts of propriety and impinges Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution which inter alia provides the people of India the right to live in a corruption and criminal free society," the petition mentioned.
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