Dharamshala, May 5 -- After the Shimla Municipal Court ordered the demotion of the remaining two floors of the Sanjauli mosque, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Anurag Thakur claimed on Monday that the structure's construction was illegal and that the Waqf Board also cannot show documents proving ownership of the land.

"The mindset of the Waqf Board is that they will never show documents. The way a mosque was constructed in Shimla's Sanjauli was illegal. There were no documents of the land. Even after several months, the documents could not be presented then the order was given that all the floors will be demolished," Thakur told reporters at the Dharamshala airport.

He further claimed that there are thousands of similar properties across the ...