Rabbi Joseph Kantor, representing the Chabad movement, opposed the prayer service commemorating the terror attack anniversary without informing the court receiver.
Two years after the November 26 terror attack, a dispute between Moshe’s grandparents and the Chabad Lubavitch movement spilled out before the judge in the Bombay high court on Thursday.
Rabbi Joseph Kantor, representing the Chabad movement, opposed the prayer service commemorating the terror attack anniversary without informing the court receiver.
The Chabad house at Colaba is now in the possession of the high court receiver after Kantor urged the court to stop the ongoing repairs because “it was illegal”.
On the other hand, both sets of grandparents of Moshe whose
father Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and mother Rivka were killed in the attack, have sought the right to renovate the property.
“The possession of the building should not be disturbed,” said counsel DS Parikh on behalf of Kantor. “They cannot hold service.”
In reply, counsel Dinesh Gandhy who appeared for the other side said, “The court is only trying to protect the property. If they want to have a prayer service, what’s the problem?”
When Parikh said that no third party should be allowed in the property, Gandhy said 25 foreigners and 25 local people would attend the memorial service.
“It would be a matter of shame if a person whose family member has died in the terror attack is not allowed to hold a memorial service,” said Gandhy. While the order was being passed, Parikh said Kantor and 10 other people should be allowed to attend the memorial.
Civil judge SP Deskhmukh allowed the grandparents of Moshe to hold a memorial service at 7pm on Thursday and at 1pm on Friday after noting that they were only paying tribute to their dead son and daughter-in-law and weren’t involved in construction work.
Nachman Holtzberg, Moshe’s grandfather, filed an application before the court that he should be included as a defendant in the suit filed by Kantor.
Kantor has filed a change report before the charity commissioner, naming himself as a trustee of the property. But this has been refuted by the Holtzbergs. This will come for hearing before the charity commissioner on Friday.
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