Actress Kunika Lal moves HC against 'madrasa'

Actress Kunika Lal today moved the Bombay High Court urging action against a 'madrasa' which she claimed had been illegally built on a plot of land reserved for a school playground in suburban Jogeshwari.
Hearing her petition, Justice Sharad Bobade and Justice Rajesh Ketkar asked the Maharashtra government to place before them any order of a court which had ordered demolition of a place of worship located on a playground or road.
This would serve as a precedent and they would accordingly pass an order, the judges said while asking the state to produce such a case law during the hearing of the petition next week.
Kunika said that the ground belonged to a school run by an NGO of which she was a trustee. She alleged that a 'madrasa' had come up there in violation of rules. The place of worship was run by the Markazul Marif Education Research Centre.