Nainital: Uttarakhand High Court heard together more than 3 dozen petitions filed by madrasas in the case of sealing illegal madrasas running without registration in the state by the district administration on 14 April 2025. After hearing the case, a single bench of senior Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari directed that the madrasas running without the permission of the Madrasa Board should not write Madrasa above their name. Because they are not registered with the Madrasa Board. Even after this, if any madrasa without registration writes Madrasa above its name, then the district administration can take action.
Sealed madrasas will be opened: The court further said that the madrasas which were sealed should be opened. But they will give an affidavit to the sealing authority with the intention that they will not do any teaching related work in it. What will be opened in these? The state government will take a decision on that. Permission to perform religious activities related to Maktab: During the hearing, the madrasas said that they have applied for registration in the Madrasa Board to run the madrasas. They have not received permission for the same yet. Opposing this, the state government said that 416 madrasas are registered with the Madrasa Board in the state so far. The rest which were sealed are running without permission. Many irregularities were seen in them. Taking cognizance of this, the court said that they should be unsealed. If they write Madrasa above their name, then the officers who seal them should take action against them as per the rules. However, they can perform religious activities related to Maktab in them. According to the case, more than 33 sealed madrasas including Madrasa Abbu Bakar Siddiqui, Madrasa Jinnat ul Quran, Madrasa Darul ul Islamia have filed petitions in the High Court saying that the district administration sealed more than three dozen madrasas in the state on 14 April 2025 without following the rules. Whereas educational institutions were running in the madrasas.
Opposing this, the government said that these madrasas were running illegally. They are not registered with the Madrasa Board. Teaching, religious rituals and namaz are also being done in them. All these are being run by some particular person or others. Therefore they were sealed. The administration did not seal the madrasas which were registered. They are getting grants from the government.
Petition dismissed on DM-SSP report: Uttarakhand High Court heard the PIL filed regarding the return of the land of Nagar Panchayat Piran Kaliyar to the Nagar Panchayat. After hearing the case, the division bench of the court has disposed of the PIL on the basis of the report of the District Magistrate and SSP. The District Magistrate has said in his report that the land which the Nagar Panchayat is demanding to open its office, that land has been given to build a police station. Another land has been given for the Nagar Panchayat office.
The SSP said that their area is more. They have 27 villages. They should be given this land to maintain law and order in them. The Nagar Panchayat has 4 villages. Therefore, they should be given another place. After observing the report, the division bench disposed of the PIL. The case was heard in the division bench of Chief Justice G Narendra and Justice Subhash Upadhyay.
According to the case, Piran Kaliyar resident Yasin has filed a PIL in the High Court saying that the Nagar Panchayat of Piran Kaliyar was formed in 2014-15. After which, the government allotted the said land to the police administration in 2018, amidst the population, and asked to build a police station in 3 years, but even after the time period has passed, the police station has not been built there till date.
It has been said in the petition that the government land located in Nagar Panchayat Piran Kaliyar should be given to the Nagar Panchayat, so that the Nagar Panchayat can use this land for the benefit of the public. Because till now the Nagar Panchayat does not have any government land available to open its office.
