In a major development, the Madras High Court shot down the nefarious objective of a mosque to encroach upon 1100 acres of land in Kandiyaperi village in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. For the unversed, the Kanmiya Pallivasal (mosque) had filed a civil suit before the Waqf Tribunal (Tiruneveli Principal Sub Court) in 2011, staking its claim on the large tract of land.