{"id":51796,"date":"2024-04-05T06:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T06:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=51796"},"modified":"2024-04-05T06:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T06:39:40","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-request-to-repatriate-mortal-remains-of-sufi-saint-from-bangladesh-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/supreme-court-rejects-request-to-repatriate-mortal-remains-of-sufi-saint-from-bangladesh-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rejects Request to Repatriate Mortal Remains of Sufi Saint from Bangladesh to India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Delhi, Apr 5 : <\/strong>The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking transportation of the mortal remains of Sufi saint Hazrat Shah Muhammad Abdul Muqtadir Shah Masood Ahmad from Bangladesh to India.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said there is no constitutionally enforceable right to seek transportation of the Sufi saint&#8217;s mortal remains as he was a Pakistani citizen.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;He is a Pakistani citizen, how can you expect the Union of India to bring his burials in India?&#8221; the bench asked.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The counsel, appearing for petitioner Dargah Hazrat Mulla Syed, said the saint has no family in Pakistan, whereas, at the dargah in Uttar Pradesh, he was the Sajjada-nasheen (spiritual head).<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The lawyer told the top court that the saint was born in Prayagraj, then called Allahabad, and migrated to Pakistan. He got Pakistani citizenship in 1992.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;He was elected as the Sajjada Nasheen of the shrine viz. Dargah Hazrat Mulla Syed Mohammad Shah in 2008 in Prayagraj. He executed his will in 2021 expressing a desire to be buried in the shrine. He died in Dhaka where he was buried. There are difficulties in entertaining such a petition.<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Hazrat Shah was a Pakistani citizen and has no constitutional right&#8230; the practical difficulties related to exhumation. As a matter of first principle, it would not be right for this court to direct the transportation of the mortal remains of a citizen of a foreign state in India,&#8221; the bench, also comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Apr 5 : The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking transportation of the mortal remains of Sufi saint Hazrat Shah Muhammad Abdul Muqtadir Shah Masood Ahmad from Bangladesh to India.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said there is no constitutionally enforceable right to seek transportation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[3700,1032,73,1033,3699,817],"class_list":{"0":"post-51796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-national","9":"tag-bangladesh-to-india","10":"tag-earlypostdaily","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-latestnews","13":"tag-sufi-saint","14":"tag-supreme-court"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51798,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51796\/revisions\/51798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}