Syed Meera Hussain Sahib vs. Haja Noordeen Sahib @ Alhaj Dr. S. Syed Kamil Sahib

COURT NO.7

ITEM NO. $43+53$

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) $No(s).31959-31961/2018$

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 08-06-2018 in CRPPD No. 938/2010 08-06-2018 in WP No. 7809/2010 08-06-2018 in WA No. 1640/2016 passed by the High Court Of Judicature At Madras)

NAGORE DARGAH NAGORE & ORS.

VERSUS

TAMIL NADU WAKF BOARD & ORS.

Respondent $(s)$

Petitioner(s)

( IA No. 3954/2020 - CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION) WTTH SLP (C) No(s). 10929/2019 (IA No. 63085/2019 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)

Date: 28-02-2020 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.M. KHANWILKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH MAHESHWARI

	For Petitioner(s) Mr. V. Krisnamurthy, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. V. Vasudevan, Adv.
	Mrs. Geetha Kovilan, AOR

Mr. K. K. Mani, AOR Ms. T. Archana, Adv.

• For Respondent(s) Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Sr. Adv. Mr. V. Balaji, Adv. Mr. S. Haja Mohideen Gisthi, Adv. Mr. Atul Sharma, Adv. Mr. Asaithambi, Adv. Mr. C. Kannan, Adv. Ms. Neha Singh, Adv. Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, AOR Mr. Lenin Raj K., Adv. Mr. Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Vignesh Ram K.M., Adv. Mr. Pranab Prakash, AOR
  • Mr. G. Balaji, AOR
  • Mrs. Sudha Gupta, AOR

SECTION XII

Ms. Shantha Devi Raman, adv. Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Ms. Aishna Jain, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

We are informed that during the pendency of these special leave petitions, a contempt petition was filed before the High Court, in which the High Court had directed the parties to explore possibility of settlement by mediation process and nominated Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla, former Judge of this Court, Justice K.N. Basha and Justice G.M. Akbar Ali, former Judges of Madras High Court. That mediation process has been concluded and settlement terms are also drawn between the parties. However, that settlement has been made the subject matter of challenge before the Division Bench of the High Court in Letter Patents Appeal Nos. 1/2020 and 3/2020.

Further, some interim order has also been passed by the High Court in the said appeals. Resultantly, we grant liberty to the parties to approach the High Court for modification or vacation of the interim order including to decide the appeals finally and expeditiously. That request be considered by the High Court appropriately on

its own merits in accordance with law uninfluenced by the fact that present special leave petitions are pending or interim relief has been granted by this Court. As a matter of fact, if the settlement is allowed to be given effect to in those appeals, it is possible that some of the issues raised in the present special leave petitions may not survive for consideration.

List the matters after eight weeks.

(NEETU KHAJURIA) COURT MASTER

(VIDYA NEGI) COURT MASTER