The Gujarat High Court on Friday declined to interfere with an order refusing to stop the partial demolition of a mosque said to be about 400 years old in Ahmedabad, Live Law reported. A part of the structure is being set back to widen a road leading to the Sabarmati railway station.

A division bench of Justices AS Supehia and LS Pirzada noted that the mosque, known as Mancha Masjid, was not being completely demolished.

The bench agreed with a September 23 order issued by a single-judge bench that the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation followed the required procedure before deciding to set back a part of the premises of the mosque in Saraspur.

The mosque’s mutawalli, or custodian, had filed an appeal after the single judge had rejected his petition challenging the municipal corporation

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