India, May 23 -- The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition by an individual who sought to be declared the mutawalli, or custodian, of the Dargah Sayyed Shah Nizamuddin in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. The individual had challenged the eligibility of a woman mutawalli, highlighting that Islamic law does not permit women to be mutawallis, or custodians of wakf properties. Observing that the individual had repeatedly approached the court on the same issue for years, the court declared the suit as "vexatious", firmly dismissing the decades-long litigation.

The legal battle over the custodianship of Dargah Sayyad Shah Nizamuddin, situated at Nizamuddin Chowk in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, dates to 1966, when Gulam Moi...