Mufaddal Saifuddin succeeded because the 53rd Syedna of the neighborhood in 2014
Mumbai:
The Bombay Excessive Court docket at this time upheld the appointment of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin because the chief of the Dawoodi Bohra neighborhood, dismissing his nephew Syedna Taher Fakhruddin’s petition.
The court docket has “solely selected the problem of proof and never religion,” a single bench of Justice Gautam Patel mentioned and dismissed the 2014 swimsuit.
Within the petition, Syedna Taher Fakhruddin had mentioned that his uncle shouldn’t be allowed to proceed because the neighborhood chief as he took over the place in a “fraudulent method.”
Mufaddal Saifuddin succeeded because the 53rd Syedna of the neighborhood after his father Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin died in 2014.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin, Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin’s half-brother, then challenged Saifuddin’s succession, claiming that Syedna Burhanuddin had secretly conferred ‘nass,’ the official declaration of succession, upon him in 1965.
He claimed that Syedna Burhanuddin had requested him to maintain the ‘nass’ a secret.
Qutbuddin died in 2016 after which, his son, Syedna Taher Fakhruddin took over his father’s case, urging the excessive court docket to declare him the neighborhood chief.
Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, in the meantime, opposed the swimsuit and mentioned that the ‘nass’ lacked witnesses and couldn’t be accepted.
“I do not need any upheavals. I’ve stored the judgment as impartial as potential. I’ve solely selected the problem of proof and never religion,” Justice Patel mentioned whereas dismissing the swimsuit, mentioned.
The Dawoodi Bohras are a non secular denomination amongst Shia Muslims.
A “nass” might be conferred upon any deserving member of the neighborhood and never essentially a member of the family of the present chief.
