A.C.M. Rasheed v. M.M. Isfahan et al – CA CASE NO. WT 02/2014-2015

The case between A.C.M. Rasheed, Person-in-Charge of Ratmalana Jumma Mosque, and M.M. Isfahan, Mohamed Mohamed Ariff, M.H.M. Farouk, among others acting as Trustees of the Ratmalana Jumma Mosque, addressed the issue of the validity of the Wakfs Board’s appointment of trustees to the Mosque under the Muslim Mosques and Charitable Trusts or Wakfs Act No. 51 of 1956. It was determined that the Board’s 2012 order and the Tribunal’s 2014 order appointing trustees should not be set aside, reaffirming the principle that procedural and factual objections concerning trustee appointments must be properly raised before the Wakfs Board and Tribunal as prescribed by statute. This decision relied on statutory provisions and precedents distinguishing “patent” from “latent” jurisdictional defects, emphasi