SALEM MUSLIM BURIAL GROUND PROTECTION COMMITTEE vs STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND ORS
Supreme Court of IndiaJudgment
About this record
The Supreme Court of India decided this matter on 18 May 2023. The registry identifies it as Diary No. 36318/2009. The bench of 2 comprised Justice V. Ramasubramanian and Justice Pankaj Mithal.
The disposal recorded by the registry is "Appeals dismissed; land held not to be wakf due to procedural lapses and lack of evidence…". The record refers to 4 enactments, among them Tamil Nadu Estate (Abolition & Conversion into Ryotwari) Act 1948, Wakf Act, 1954 and Wakf Act, 1995. 4 statutory provisions are noted on the record.
Court record
| Court | Supreme Court of India |
|---|---|
| Record type | Judgment |
| Diary number | Diary No. 36318/2009 |
| Date of decision | |
| Decision year | 2023 |
| Bench | |
| Petitioner | SALEM MUSLIM BURIAL GROUND PROTECTION COMMITTEE |
| Respondent | STATE OF TAMIL NADU AND ORS. |
| Disposal | Appeals dismissed; land held not to be wakf due to procedural lapses and lack of evidence of dedication or long usage. |
| Reporting | reportable |
| Acts |
|
| Sections |
|
These are the case details as recorded by the court. CourtMesh does not alter court records. Every linked value opens the other records that share it.
How to refer to this record
These identifiers come from the court record itself. The address below is permanent: if the page is ever renamed, the old address keeps redirecting to it, so it is safe to cite in a note, a brief or a footnote.
- Registry identifier: Diary No. 36318/2009
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India, 18 May 2023
- Permanent address of this record: https://courtmesh.ai/judgment/supreme-court/2023/salem-muslim-burial-ground-protection-committee-vs-state-of-tamil-2023-516c90
Need this as data, not as a page?This record is one of many CourtMesh holds for the Supreme Court of India. The Indian court cases API serves the same records over JSON, with API documentation and plans and pricing. See also Supreme Court of India data coverage.
Inside the full case file
See the rest of this matter
The court record above is free, and it stays free. A free CourtMesh account opens the rest of the file:
- The complete timeline of the matter, hearing by hearing
- Every order and document on the record, ready to read
- The full judgment exactly as the court published it
- AI analysis: what was decided, on what reasoning, in minutes instead of an afternoon
Free account. No card. About a minute to create.
Create a free accountThe same account unlocks all of CourtMesh Research: AI-powered search across 300 million+ Indian court records, a research agent that finds and reads the case law for you, and every judgment page like this one, in full.