Overview
- A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi declined to interfere with the Gujarat High Court decision permitting limited demolition near Mancha Masjid.
- Only a strip of vacant land and an adjoining platform will be removed, and the mosque’s main structure will remain intact.
- The court recorded that a temple, commercial premises and residential properties are also affected as part of the same road-widening plan.
- Article 25 was held inapplicable, with the court framing the dispute as one of property rights and potential compensation.
- The High Court found the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation followed the Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act for the Saraspur project to ease traffic congestion.