The AP State Wakf Board has finalized a four-tier system of lawyers who would be challenging the Supreme Court injunction on AP high court order declaring Manikonda Jagir as wakf land. “We have finalized a set of lawyers and they are studying the counter prepared by board lawyer Shafeeq Rahman Mahajir. Mahajir and another board lawyer Masood Khan will be visiting Delhi soon to give a final shape to the counter and thrash out other legal details with the senior counsels there,” board chairman Syed Ghulam Afzal Biyabani.
He declined to divulge the names of the counsels. “It will be tactically wrong if we reveal whom we have hired to fight our case,” he stated. He said the board members will be holding a meeting with the managing committee of Dargah Hazrath Hussain Shah Wali to establish a system of coordination in the case
. “We will be meeting committee president Syed Afzal Mehdi soon. We agree that there should be complete coordination between the board and the committee to take such a crucial case to its logical conclusion,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mehdi said noted senior counsel Rajiv Dhavan has agreed to represent the committee in court in the case which is scheduled to come up for hearing on September 17. Sources said that the Wakf Board team that met legal experts in Delhi comprised besides Biyabani, Mahajir and Khan, board members Altaf Hussain Razwi and Zakir Hussain Javed, law officer Sultan Mohiuddin and advocate Wajid Ali Kamil. The board’s advocate-on-record will be Ejaz Maqbool.
Sources said that in the four-tier mechanism, Mahajir and Khan will be at one level, two lawyers of SC would work on the counter, another senior lawyer would whet the counter and finally, the senior-most lawyer would present the case. They said that the meeting between the Delhi lawyers and board team started on rickety note but by the end of about half a dozen sessions spread over two days all of them appeared to be on the same page.
—Courtesy:Timesofindia
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