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APOT NO. 177 OF 2023 REPORTABLE

27. The learned Single Judge held that the impugned notices are within the statutory mandate in Section 54 and 3(ee) of the 1995 Act and refused to interfere with such notices.

28. The Wakf in question was created sometimes in the year 1895. The Mutawallis executed a registered deed of lease dated 1.9.59 in favour of Hooghly and Ganges Hydraulic Press Company Limited in respect of a plot of 4 bighas of land and a contiguous plot of 3 cottahs 14 chittacks and 21 square feet of land for a period of 49 years which belongs to the wakf. In the year 1973, the lease was assigned to the appellant no. 1. The said lease expired on 25.12.2003. The Indenture provided that there will be no further renewal of the lease after 25.12.2003. The appellant did not deliver possession of the demised land after expiry of the lease.