India, July 12 -- A Delhi court on Friday declined to restrain the management of the Shaheen Bagh graveyard from reusing a grave, observing that granting such protection would create a private right over limited public burial land meant to serve the Muslim community.

District judge Atul Ahlawat of the Saket Courts dismissed an appeal filed by M. Basharat Hussain, a Jasola Vihar resident, upholding a trial court order that had refused interim relief in the matter.

Hussain's wife was buried at the Shaheen Bagh graveyard, managed by Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, in April 2021. A legal dispute arose last year when the graveyard management moved to bury another body over her grave.

In his plea, Hussain argued that Islamic law does not permit reuse o...