The Madras High Court has directed an ad hoc board of administrators, comprising former IAS officer K. Alauddin and retired district judge S.F. Akbar, of Nagore Dargah in Nagapattinam district to show cause as to why they should not be substituted for having reportedly misused their position and the funds of the Dargah for filing an unnecessary writ appeal before the court.
Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy took suo motu cognisance of the issue and called for an explanation from the ad hoc administrators by March 10. The judges also wanted to know why they were still continuing in office though they were appointed by the court only for a short period of four months in February 2017.
The first Division Bench further directed the ad hoc administrators to file an affidavit listing out the expenses incurred by them with regard to the affairs of the Dargah and their own affairs in the last five years. S. Haja Mohideen Gisthi, counsel for Tamil Nadu Wakf Board, was also ordered to furnish expenses incurred by the ad hoc administrators towards travel and other purposes.
