LUCKNOW, May 31 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court dismissed a writ petition seeking the transfer of over two bighas of land at King George's Medical University (KGMU) to the dargah of Hazrat Hameen Shah Sahib, paving the way for the construction of a patient utility centre on the site.

A division bench of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice Amitabh Kumar Rai passed the order on Friday (May 29) which was uploaded on the high court's website on Saturday.

Syed Babar Islam, claiming to be the general secretary of an Islamic organisation, filed a writ petition before the high court. He sought directions that the entire land, including the area from which encroachments had been removed-amounting to more than two bighas-be handed ov...