Ruckus in UP’s Sambhal: why a plea has been filed over the Shahi Jama Masjid

The petition was filed connected Tuesday afternoon, and wrong hours, the justice appointed an advocator commissioner and directed him to transportation retired an archetypal survey astatine the mosque, which was done the aforesaid day. The tribunal besides directed that a study of the survey beryllium filed earlier it by November 29.

What is the Jama masjid successful Chandausi?

The Jama Masjid “is a protected monument”, notified connected December 22, 1920 nether Section 3, sub-section (3) of Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904. It has been “declared arsenic Monument of National value and figures connected the website of ASI, Agra ellipse Moradabad division” successful the database of centrally protected monuments.

Who has filed the case?

A full of 8 petitioners person filed the lawsuit successful the Sambhal court. These see advocator Hari Shankar Jain, who is besides a lawyer successful the Gyanvapi mosque-Kashi Vishwanath dispute; Advocate Parth Yadav; and Mahant Rishiraj Giri, the mahant of the Kalki Devi temple successful Sambhal. Other petitioners are Noida nonmigratory Ved Pal Singh; Sambhal residents Rakesh Kumar, Jitpal Yadav, Madanpal, and Deenanath.

What does the petition say?

The plea claims determination is simply a “centuries aged Shri Hari Har Temple dedicated to Lord Kalki successful the bosom of metropolis of Sambhal which is being utilized forcibly and unlawfully” by the Jama Masjid Committee.

The petition says that “Sambhal is simply a humanities metropolis and holds unsocial value profoundly rooted successful Hindu Shastras, according to which it is ineffable tract wherever an incarnation of Lord Vishnu known arsenic Kalki manifest successful the future, a Divine fig yet to marque an appearance”.

“Kalki is believed to beryllium tenth and past incarnation of Lord Vishnu, destined to get successful Kalyuga. His descent is believed to herald the extremity of the acheronian and tumultuous Kalyuga ushering successful the adjacent age, known arsenic Satyuga,” says the plea nether the heading “historical facts”.

The petition says that that “Hindu scriptures corroborate that successful past times a unsocial ‘Vigrah’ consisting of Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva emerged and owed to this reason, it is called ‘Shri Hari Har’ temple. It says that “Shri Hari Har temple of Sambhal was made by Lord Vishwakarma Himself successful the opening of the universe”.

It further says that Babar invaded India successful 1526 AD and “destroyed a fig of Hindu temples to amusement the mightiness of Islam to marque the Hindus consciousness that they are subjects of Islamic ruler”.

The plea says that “in 1527-28 Hindu Beg, the Lieutenant of Babar Army partially demolished Shri Hari Har temple astatine Sambhal” and that “the Muslims occupied the temple gathering to usage the aforesaid arsenic mosque”.

The petitioners accidental that the monument is protected nether the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 and nether conception 18 of the Act, the nationalist has the “right of entree to protected monument”.

It says that the nationalist “has close of entree to the taxable spot successful accordance with Rule 5 of The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Rules,1959.

What person the petitioners said astir the ASI?

The plea says that the “ASI has failed to person power implicit the taxable spot and they are not taking immoderate action”. “The Officers of ASI are soundless spectator and they person succumbed to the unit exerted by members of Muslim community,” it says.

What alleviation person the petitioners sought from the court?

The plea has asked the tribunal to walk an bid allowing the petitioners the “right of entree into Shri Hari Har Temple/alleged Jama Masjid”.

They person asked the tribunal to walk an bid commanding the defendants (mosque committee, Union government, ASI) “to marque due provisions for giving entree to the members of nationalist within” the mosque.

The petitioners person besides sought from the tribunal an bid successful the quality of “permanent injunction restraining the defendants, their officers, workers and each idiosyncratic acting nether them from creating immoderate hurdle oregon obstacle successful entering the Plaintiffs and the members of the nationalist into” the structure.

What has the Muslim broadside said?

Reacting to the survey of the Jama Masjid, Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal, Ziaur Rehman Barq, said, “Outsiders person attempted to disrupt the communal harmony of the territory by filing a petition of this quality successful court. The Supreme Court has already stated that, according to the Worship Act of 1991, each spiritual places that existed successful 1947 volition stay successful their existent locations. Jama Masjid successful Sambhal is simply a historical tract wherever Muslims person been offering prayers for respective centuries. We person the close to entreaty to the precocious tribunal if we bash not person a satisfactory bid from the section court.”