Supreme Court extends stay on court-monitored survey of Shahi Idgah mosque complex in Mathura

The CJI said determination were 3 issues pending present with the apex tribunal and they are “the contented of an intra-court entreaty (against consolidation of lawsuits filed by the Hindu litigants), the different 1 is the Act (challenge to the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991) itself. List successful the week commencing April 1.” The seat said successful the meantime the interim bid of the Allahabad High Court staying the court-monitored survey of the Shahi Idgah mosque analyzable volition proceed to operate.

The apical court, connected January 16 past year, had archetypal stayed the cognition of the December 14, 2023 bid of the precocious court.

The precocious tribunal had allowed a court-monitored survey of the Shahi Idgah mosque analyzable and agreed to the assignment of a tribunal commissioner to oversee it.

The Hindu broadside claims the premises clasp signs suggesting that a temple erstwhile existed astatine the site.

Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, appearing for the Hindu parties, had said the entreaty of the mosque committee was filed against the December 14, 2023 bid of the precocious tribunal and connected orders successful the substance had go infructuous.

“All these petitions person go infructuous arsenic the precocious tribunal has pronounced its bid later,” helium said.

Jain referred to the consequent bid of the precocious tribunal by which it rejected a plea of the Muslim parties challenging the maintainability of 18 cases related to the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah quality successful Mathura, and ruled that the spiritual quality of the mosque needs to beryllium determined.

The precocious tribunal had dismissed the Muslim side’s contention that the suits filed by the Hindu litigants relating to the quality implicit the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple and the adjacent mosque violated the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act of 1991 and truthful were not maintainable.

The 1991 Act prohibits changing the spiritual quality of immoderate shrine from what existed connected the time of the country’s Independence. It exempted lone the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid quality from its purview.

In Mathura, a suit was filed successful the tribunal of Civil Judge Senior Division (III) for shifting the Shahi Idgah mosque, claiming that it was constructed connected a portion of the 13.37 acre onshore of the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Trust.

The Hindu broadside had requested the precocious tribunal to behaviour the archetypal proceedings similar it had done successful the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi rubric dispute.

While allowing the plea for a court-monitored survey, the precocious tribunal had said that nary harm should beryllium caused to the operation during the workout which it indicated could beryllium overseen by a three-member committee of advocates.