Supereme Court stays Allahabad HC order for survey of Shahi Eidgah mosque
The preferrred courtroom on Tuesday stayed Allahabad excessive courtroom's order appointing an endorse commissioner to survey the Shahi Eidgah mosque adjacent the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple in Mathura. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta called the application seeking the appointment of a local commissioner “vague”. The bench turned into listening to a plea of the Committee of control, consider Shahi Masjid Idgah challenging the Allahabad HC's order.
“you could’t report a vague software for appointment of court docket commissioner. It should be very specific on the purpose. You may’t go away the entirety to the court to investigate it,” the bench instructed senior suggest Shyam Divan, acting for Hindu our bodies, as quoted by means of PTI.
In the meantime, the top court additionally issued observe to the Hindu bodies looking for their reaction whilst making it clean that complaints before the high court within the dispute will keep. The case might be taken up on January 23, it added.
What's the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah Masjid dispute?
The Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah Masjid case is a decades-old dispute referring to the website online in Mathura where petitioners declare that the Shahi Idgah mosque adjoining the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple holds symptoms suggesting that it was a Hindu temple once. The Hindu petitioners believe the mosque changed into built atop the birthplace of Lord Krishna in Mathura, including that a lotus-shaped pillar feature of Hindu temples exists on the mosque premises.
