The Supreme Court today(December 12) stayed the declaration of the Kerala High Court that the Munambam property is not a Waqf land and ordered status quo with respect to the land till January 27.

A bench comprising Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan , however, clarified that it has not stayed the observation of the High Court, which upheld the State Government's decision to appoint a one-member Commission of Inquiry to examine the status and extent of a 404.76-acre property in Munambam.

The Court passed the interim order while issuing notice on a Special Leave Petition filed by the Kerala Waqf Samrakshana Vedi against the High Court's verdict.

At the outset, Senior Advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, assisted by AoR Abdulla Naseeh, for the petitioner, submitted that the High Court

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