The Allahabad High Court on Monday adjourned the꧟ hearing till November 8 on a petition filed by Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Commit𒁏tee (AIMC) which has challenged the maintainability of a suit seeking restoration of a temple at the site where the Gyanvapi mosque exists in Varanasi.
When the case was taken up, the court was told by the AIMC that it had filed a Special Leave🅠 Petition (SLP) before the Supreme Court against the order of the chief justice of the high court to withdraw the case from a single-judge bench that had been hearing the matter since 2021.
The apex court has fixed November 6 for he𓆏aring theꩲ matter, Chief Justice Pritinkar Diwakar was informed after which he adjourned the hearing on the AIMC's plea till November 8.
The AIMC has challenged the maintainability of a suit filed before a Varanasi court in which the plaintiff had sought restoration of a temple at the site w▨here the Gyanvapi mosque exists.
The petition also challenges a Vara🤡nasi court direction to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a comprehens꧅ive survey of the Gyanvapi mosque. The order was passed on April 8, 2021.
The Chief Justice while giving reasons for the order dated September 18, 2023, which has bee🍸n challenged before the Supreme Court, stated that the decision was taken on the administrative side in the “interest of judicial propriety, judicial discipline, and transp𝕴arency in the listing of cases".
-With PTI input
