Prasoon Sinha represented the municipal corporation. Senior counsels PK Shahi, Tej Bahadur and Mrigank Mauli, represented the Waqf board in the court. Lalit Kishore, Advocate General, represented the state. Rajendra Narain, Senior Counsel, was appointed by the court as its amicus curiae. The building was deemed illegal by three out of five judges The High Court also questioned the government over hurried construction during the Covid time as no construction work was taking place anywhere else in the state. Court questioned the government over the construction It was supposed to be used as a guest house or ‘musafirkhana’. The Bihar state building construction corporation constructed the building for Bihar State Sunni Waqf Board. Reports suggest that Rs.14 crores of the public money would go to waste. The court has directed the state government to form an inquiry commission to investigate and fix the responsibility of the government officials who permitted the illegal construction of the building. The court directed the Patna Municipal Corporation to demolish the building if the construction department fails to do so within the period given by the court. In its 4:1 judgement, the court stated that the construction was illegal as per Bihar Building Bylaws, 2014. On March 1, a constitution bench comprising of Justice Ashwani Kumar Singh, Justice Vikash Jain, Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Justice Rajendra Kumar Mishra and Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh took suo motu cognizance of the matter. On Tuesday last week, the Patna High Court ordered the demolition of a four-storey building being built adjacent to the High Court ‘Centenary Building’.
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