Gyanvapi Mosque Case: Varanasi court to decide on petitions for hearings tomorrow
Gyanvapi Mosque Case: Varanasi court to decide on petitions for hearings tomorrow
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23/05/2022381
Gyanvapi Mosque Case Live News Updates: The Varanasi district court, hearing the civil suit on the Gyanvapi mosque-Kashi Viswanath temple complex dispute, will on Tuesday deliver order on whether to invite objections on commissioner survey report of Gyanvapi mosque or conduct hearing on Order 7 Rule 11 application of the Masjid committee first. The Hindus wanted the objections to be heard while Muslims wanted the O7R11 to be decided, the Bar & Bench reported.
The Varanasi court was hearing the case on Monday after the Supreme Court on Friday ordered the transfer of the pending proceedings to the District Judge, Varanasi, for “trial and all interlocutory and ancillary proceedings”. The hearing was to decipher the way ahead in the case and how would the hearing be conducted. Only the parties and their lawyers allowed entry in court room.
Underlining the “complexity of the issues involved in the civil suit” earlier pending before the Civil Judge (Senior Division), Varanasi, the Supreme Court on Friday had said that the suit “should be tried before a senior and experienced judicial officer of the Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Service”.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq claimed that there was no ‘Shivling’ in Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi and the word was spread about it to stoke sentiments for the upcoming 2024 parliamentary elections. “All these circumstances are being created due to 2024 elections. If you go into the history there was no ‘Shivling’ and nothing else in the Gyanvapi mosque. All this is wrong,” Barq, an MP from Sambhal, told reporters outside the Samajwadi Party office.