Lucknow, 4 February, 2021 (TON): Two New Delhi native sisters, Rani Kapoor, and Rama Rani Punjabi have moved the Lucknow bench Allahabad High Court, for claiming the ownership of a five-acre land where a mosque was to be built.

The sisters asserted the ownership of the land which was allotted to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board for the construction of a mosque in Ayodhya, in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.

The petition was filed before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Wednesday and is likely to come up for hearing on February 8.

Rani Kapoor a.k.a Rani Baluja and Rama Rani Punjabi have said in the writ petition that their father Gyan Chandra Punjabi had come to India during partition in 1947 from Punjab and settled in Faizabad, the present Ayodhya district.

They claimed that 28 acre land in the Dhannipur village was allotted to their father by the Nazul Department for five years which he continued to possess beyond that period.

Later, his name was included in the revenue records, the petitioners have said.

However, his name was struck down from the records after which their father filed an appeal before the Additional Commissioner, Ayodhya, which was allowed.

The consolidation officer again removed their father’s name from the records during the consolidation proceedings, the petitioners further claimed.

The petitioner said that an appeal was filed before the Settlement Officer of Consolidation, Sadar, Ayodhya, but without considering the said petition, the authorities allotted “five-acre” of their land to the Waqf Board for the construction of the mosque.

Consequently, the petitioners demand authorities be restrained from transferring the land to the Sunni Waqf Board till the pendency of dispute before the settlement officer.