- By Shivam Shandilya
- Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:57 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Sambhal Mosque Case: The Allahabad High Court has stayed the hearing of the Sambhal temple-mosque dispute, and the opponents have been asked to respond in four weeks. The order was given by Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal while hearing the monitoring petition of the Intezamia Committee of Shahi Jama Masjid of Sambhal. The court has scheduled the next hearing on February 25.
According to the petition, Harishankar Jain and others filed a civil suit in the Sambhal court on November 19. In the case, Shahi Jama Masjid was said to be a temple in the past. While hearing this case, the court had ordered a survey of the spot.
On November 24, 2024, four people died in the violence over this survey. In the petition, the petition has raised questions on the maintainability of the case filed in the district court of Sambhal and demanded cancellation of its hearing.
The petition is mainly based on the filing of a civil suit in a single day, an immediate hearing on it, and starting the survey work along with the general order. It was said that one party is suffering a big loss due to the survey. Along with this, a demand has also been made to stop the further process of the survey order of the court.
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The mosque committee has also submitted a copy of the writ petition filed in the Supreme Court in the court of the Civil Judge Senior Division on Wednesday. The survey report has also been filed in this case.
After the claim of the Harihar temple in Sambhal's Jama Masjid was presented and the survey report was filed, the hearing in this case was held in the court of Civil Judge Senior Division on Wednesday. A copy of the writ petition filed by the Jama Masjid Committee in the Supreme Court regarding the Worship Act was submitted in the court, in which a demand has been made to stop the hearing.
The survey report was to be presented on November 29, but the Advocate Commissioner had sought ten days' time from the court. On the same day, the Supreme Court had stayed the hearing in the lower court till January 6 and asked the mosque side to go to the High Court. Along with this, the High Court was ordered to list the case and hear it within three days. The Civil Judge Senior Division had fixed January 8 as the next date of hearing in this case.