Babri Masjid case advocate and AIMPLB secretary Zafaryab Jilani dies at 74

The last rites will be performed at Lucknow's Aishbagh cemetery Wednesday evening.

Zafaryab Jilani was an advocate in the Babri Masjid case and had served as the Additional Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh. (Express archive photo)

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Senior advocate and secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board Zafaryab Jilani died in a hospital in Lucknow on Wednesday, aged 74.

Last year, he suffered a brain haemorrhage after he slipped and fell.

Jilani’s son Najam Zafaryab told PTI that his father died at a local hospital around 11.50 am following a long illness. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and a daughter. Najam added that his father’s last rites will be performed at Lucknow’s Aishbagh cemetery Wednesday evening.

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Jilani was an advocate in the Babri Masjid case and had served as the Additional Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh.

Senior cleric Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahali said, “Zafaryab Jilani contested the Babri Masjid case in various courts and was also the convenor of the Babri Masjid Action Committee along with being the secretary of various educational institutions. I hope that Allah gives him absolution and strength to the people he has left behind.”

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