The Allahabad High Court has closed a writ petition filed by the managing committee of the 19th-century Fatehpur-Noori Jama Masjid, after the Uttar Pradesh government assured the bench that no additional demolition of the religious structure would take place.

A division bench of Justices Atul Sreedharan and Anish Kumar Gupta recorded the state’s categorical statement that the only action taken so far was the removal of encroachments built beyond the mosque’s original footprint on government land.

Although the petition was disposed of, the court granted liberty to the mosque committee to seek a formal demarcation of the boundaries under Section 24 of the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006.

Section 24 provides for resolution of boundary disputes through a summary inquiry conducted by a sub-

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