New Delhi/IBNS, June 4 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected Delhi Waqf Board's plea claiming a land in the city's Shahdhara area where a Gurdwara is operational since Partition, media reports said.

During the hearing, senior advocate Sanjoy Ghose, who appeared for the Delhi Waqf Board, argued the lower courts held that a mosque was operational before the gurdwara was built.

The Waqf board argued that before the gurdwara was built, Masjid Takia Babbar Shah was on the land which was dedicated as Waqf or for other religious purposes.

Both in the Delhi High Court as well as the Supreme Court, the defendant argued the land is no longer a Waqf property as the then owner Mohd Ahsaan sold it in 1953.

The High Court fifteen years ago adm...