Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 849 · Decided 1 August 2019
Aliyathammuda Beethathebiyyappura Pookoya & ANR. v. Pattakal Cheriyakoya & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 849 · [2019] 10 S.C.R. 961
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9586/2010
- Decided
- 1 August 2019
- Bench
- MOHAN M. SHANTANAGOUDAR, AJAY RASTOGI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 35, 45, 81, 114; Evidence Act Section 35, 45, 81, 114
Headnote
Muslim Law - Succession - To the office of mutawalli - Exception to the general rule against hereditary succession - Dispute pertains to the office of mutawalli of the Andrott Jumah mosque situated in Lakshadweep - Respondents, seniormost members of the Pattakal descendants of one Saint Ubaidulla, stated to have built the mosque and was its first mutawalli - They claim that by customary tradition, the office of the mutawalli of the mosque is vested with their family- Appellants, representatives of residents of the Andrott Island claim that
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