https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168363 A statutory survey under the Wakf Act, 1954 was read as including an implied power to enquire whether disputed property was wakf property, because identifying existing wakfs necessarily required determining the character of the property and the inquiry under Section 4 had a quasi-judicial element. The finality of a wakf list published under Section 5(2) and the one-year suit bar under Section 6(4) were held to operate only against the Board, the mutawalli and persons interested in the wakf, not against strangers to the wakf. Rights of non-member claimants in possession were therefore not extinguished by failure to sue within one year. en-us Tue, 24 Oct 1978 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 04 May 2015 10:27:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168363 A statutory survey under the Wakf Act, 1954 was read as including an implied power to enquire whether disputed property was wakf property, because identifying existing wakfs necessarily required determining the character of the property and the inquiry under Section 4 had a quasi-judicial element. The finality of a wakf list published under Section 5(2) and the one-year suit bar under Section 6(4) were held to operate only against the Board, the mutawalli and persons interested in the wakf, not against strangers to the wakf. Rights of non-member claimants in possession were therefore not extinguished by failure to sue within one year. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 24 Oct 1978 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168363