Indian pacer Irfan Pathan’s father has filed a caveat in a local court after being sacked from his job at the Juma Masjid and asked to vacate the one-room tenement on the premises.The mosque’s managing committee has blamed Mehboob Khan Pathan for the damage caused by rain to a copy of the Koran — said to be the largest in Asia — kept in a room above the tenement. The Pathans moved to an upmarket duplex in Tandalja about a year ago, but some of their belongings are still in their old home.Committee members say the Pathans went to England to watch county cricket, without leaving behind the keys.But Mehboob Khan isn’t willing to give up. He has filed a caveat against the eviction order. ‘‘This is the reward I am getting for serving them for 35 years. I was threatened by the trust chairman, Hanif Daymakumar, and asked to leave,’’ said Mehboob Khan.He denies he had kept the keys with him: ‘‘I had left the keys with a local boy and Daymakumar snatched them from him.’’Daymakumar, who has headed the mosque committee since 1967, refutes the charge. ‘‘He is an obstinate man. We dismissed him once 10 years ago. But the trust pitied him and relented. I believe that was a mistake,’’ he says.
