A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court Friday said the disputed Munambam land near Kochi “could never have been classified as Waqf property”.

Acting upon an appeal moved by the state government against a Single Bench order that cancelled the appointment of an inquiry commission to find a resolution to the dispute, the Division Bench of Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice Syam Kumar V.M said the “action of the Kerala Waqf Board of declaring/registering the Munambam property as a Waqf property through its declarations and orders are bad in law”.

The Munambam land dispute involves a disputed 404-acre land in Ernakulam district’s Munambam coast inhabited for generations by some 600 Christian and Hindu families. In 2019, Waqf Board staked claim on this land on the basis of a

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