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Krishna Janmabhoomi case: Muslim side welcomes Supreme Court order to extend stay on survey of Shahi Idgah mosque | India News
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AGRA: The Intezamia Committee for Shahi Idgah in Mathura on Monday welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) to extend interim stay on the operation of the Allahabad High Court order for a court-monitored survey of the mosque complex in Mathura.
Secretary and counsel for the committee, Tanveer Ahmed, said, “What is the urgency for those seeking a survey at the Shahi Idgah Mosque? It is a well-guarded structure and under the surveillance of the CRPF which rules out any foul play.We’ll take further action after reading the court orders.”
The SC on Monday adjourned until the first half of April a batch of pleas pertaining to the row and extended the interim stay granted on a HC order appointing a commission to inspect the premises of the mosque in Mathura.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta was hearing the special leave petitions filed by the mosque committee and the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board challenging a May 2023 order of the Allahabad HC transferring to itself a clutch of suits. Also listed before the bench was another SLP filed by the mosque committee challenging the order passed by the HC in December 2023 allowing the appointment of a court commissioner to inspect the mosque.
In the SLP, the mosque committee argued that the HC ought to have considered its plea for rejection of the plaint before deciding on any other miscellaneous applications in the suit. The committee has sought for rejection of the plaint on the ground that the suit is barred by the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991. Merely because the application for the appointment of a commission was filed eight days before the application for the plaint’s rejection was not a reason for deciding the former first.
The Hindu side had made a prayer before the HC that it should conduct the original trial like it had done in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute.
The apex court in Sept refused to entertain a plea by Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Mukti Nirman Trust seeking a scientific survey of mosque premises, leaving all questions relating to the land dispute open to the Allahabad HC to decide.
Recently, the HC dismissed a PIL seeking the recognition of the disputed site as Krishna Janmabhoomi and the removal of the mosque after noting that several suits for declaration, injunction, and the right to worship at the site as well as for removal of the structure were already pending before it. A SLP challenging this order by the Allahabad HC was dismissed by the SC earlier this month.
Secretary and counsel for the committee, Tanveer Ahmed, said, “What is the urgency for those seeking a survey at the Shahi Idgah Mosque? It is a well-guarded structure and under the surveillance of the CRPF which rules out any foul play.We’ll take further action after reading the court orders.”
The SC on Monday adjourned until the first half of April a batch of pleas pertaining to the row and extended the interim stay granted on a HC order appointing a commission to inspect the premises of the mosque in Mathura.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta was hearing the special leave petitions filed by the mosque committee and the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board challenging a May 2023 order of the Allahabad HC transferring to itself a clutch of suits. Also listed before the bench was another SLP filed by the mosque committee challenging the order passed by the HC in December 2023 allowing the appointment of a court commissioner to inspect the mosque.
In the SLP, the mosque committee argued that the HC ought to have considered its plea for rejection of the plaint before deciding on any other miscellaneous applications in the suit. The committee has sought for rejection of the plaint on the ground that the suit is barred by the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991. Merely because the application for the appointment of a commission was filed eight days before the application for the plaint’s rejection was not a reason for deciding the former first.
The Hindu side had made a prayer before the HC that it should conduct the original trial like it had done in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute.
The apex court in Sept refused to entertain a plea by Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Mukti Nirman Trust seeking a scientific survey of mosque premises, leaving all questions relating to the land dispute open to the Allahabad HC to decide.
Recently, the HC dismissed a PIL seeking the recognition of the disputed site as Krishna Janmabhoomi and the removal of the mosque after noting that several suits for declaration, injunction, and the right to worship at the site as well as for removal of the structure were already pending before it. A SLP challenging this order by the Allahabad HC was dismissed by the SC earlier this month.
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