India, July 21 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the Kerala high court order restraining the state Waqf Board to incur any expenditure or take policy decisions in a challenge alleging the Board composition to be not in conformity with law.

However, the court modified the interim direction of the high court issued on July 15 appointing a senior state bureaucrat to supervise the Board's functioning observing that the same was not necessary when it had already been restrained from taking any major decision.

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said, "In view of the opening line of the high court order in paragraph six (6) where under the Board was directed not to take any policy decision or incu...