The Delhi High Court, on October 15, refused to restore electricity and water connections to Race Course Masjid, a Waqf-notified property and a Grade II heritage structure notified in 2009, after the utilities were disconnected on October 7.

The masjid is located inside the Race Course Club. The club, spread over around 53 acres near the Prime Minister’s residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, and the slums around it are facing eviction following multiple rounds of litigation. The Centre has cited “national security” to justify taking possession of the area.

However, sources in the Government said on Thursday that no eviction notice had been sent to the mosque.

The masjid’s imam, Mohd Haroon, who lives in a ‘hujra’ on the premises, moved HC on October 12 after the utility connections were disconnected.

On October 8, the Delhi Waqf Board had written to the NDMC executive engineer seeking the restoration of the utilities, stating that the same had been disconnected without “any prior notice or apparent valid…