The court held there is no retrospective effect for the insertion of Section 52A in 2013 in the Waqf Act. The court held that there cannot be a prosecution under Section 52A of the Waqf Act for taking possession of Waqf property without prior sanction of the Waqf Board if there was prior possession of the property, that is before the insertion of Section 52A in 2013.
A single bench of Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan quashed the proceedings initiated against the employees of the post office on finding that they had the property since 1999.
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