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Tension has been brewing successful Sambhal since November 19 erstwhile the court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid was carried retired pursuing claims that a Harihar temple antecedently stood astatine the site. (Representational Image)
The Supreme Court is scheduled to perceive connected Friday a petition challenging the November 19 bid of a territory court, which directed that a survey beryllium undertaken of a Mughal-era mosque successful Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal.
According to the origin database of November 29 uploaded connected the apex tribunal website, a seat headed by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna is scheduled to perceive the plea filed by the Committee of Management, Shahi Jama Masjid, Sambhal.
The plea has sought an ex-parte enactment connected the cognition of the November 19 bid passed by the civilian judge.
“The blistery haste successful which the survey was allowed and conducted each wrong a time and abruptly different survey was conducted with a announcement of hardly six hours has fixed emergence to wide communal tensions and threatens the secular and antiauthoritarian cloth of the nation,” the plea said.
Tension has been brewing successful Sambhal since November 19 erstwhile the court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid was carried retired pursuing claims that a Harihar temple antecedently stood astatine the site.
Violence erupted connected November 24 arsenic protesters gathered adjacent the mosque and clashed with information personnel, starring to chromatic pelting and arson. Four radical died and scores of others were injured successful the violence.
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