The apex court deferred the appeal filed by the Anjuman Intezemia Masjid Committee until October as it awaited the decision of the Varanasi court on the committee’s plea, which has questioned the maintainability of the suit filed by a Hindu woman.
The Honourable JusticeD Y Chandrachud, PS Narasimha, and Surya Kant have turned down the plea to offer water to the “Shivling” found in Gyanvapi Mosque.
The plea was seeking the right to offer prayers as the holy month of “Shravana” has begun, but the court has restrained the Hindus from performing any rituals as the issue is yet to be resolved judiciously.
Another plea has been filed by seven women asking for Carnot dating and a ground penetration radar survey of the shivling discovered in the Gyanvapi Mosque was declined by the court.
Senior Advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, representing the mosque management committee, expressed wrath and said that the order by the court allowing the commissioner to survey the premises of the mosque is no less than a poison tree whose poison fruit has attempted to alter the situation of the mosque which has lasted for centuries.
The bench was hearing the plea filed by the Gyanvapi Mosque committee. They challenged the order of the Allahabad high court which allowed the appointment of a commissioner to investigate and video-graph the conflicted territory of the mosque to which Hindus and Muslims have been claiming the right to worship.
The Supreme Court had ordered the transfer of the case from the civil judge to the district judge of Varanasi on May 20.
According to the request made by the Committee of Management of Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Varanasi, the District Judge should determine whether the civil lawsuit filed in Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath on a matter of priority can be maintained.
