Gyanvapi Mosque Case Hearing: On Monday (April 1), the Supreme Court heard the petition of the Mosque Committee against worship in the Vyas basement of the Gyanvapi Mosque complex. Mosque side’s lawyer Huzaifa Ahmadi said that the lower court gave one week’s time to implement the order, but the government implemented it immediately. We have not got relief even from the High Court. The Supreme Court should immediately stop this.
Chief Justice DY Chandrachud issued a notice on the matter and indicated hearing on some other date. However, the lawyer for the mosque side presented his arguments demanding an immediate ban on the puja. During this, the Chief Justice said that the entry of the basement is from the south and the entry of the mosque is from the north. Both do not affect each other. We direct that for the time being, both worship should continue at their respective places.
Vyas family’s lawyer Shyam Diwan opposed issuing a formal notice. The lawyer said that the case has not yet been fully resolved in the lower courts. There is no need for Supreme Court intervention at this time.
Mosque committee reached SC against the decision of Allahabad High Court
In fact, the Anjuman Masjid Arrangement Committee has challenged in the Supreme Court the decision of the Allahabad High Court, in which the lower court order allowing Hindus to worship in the southern basement of the mosque was upheld. The committee manages the affairs of the Gyanvapi Mosque located in Varanasi. The lower court, in its order on January 31, had allowed Hindus to worship in the basement.
After this the committee went to the High Court, where their petition was rejected on 26 February. The High Court had said that the 1993 decision of the Uttar Pradesh government to stop worship inside the basement of Vyas ji located in the southern basement of Gyanvapi was illegal. The worship was stopped through illegal action of the state without any written order.
