Lagatar24 Desk
Prayagraj, Oct 17: The Allahabad High Court will hear on Wednesday the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee’s petition challenging the Varanasi district court’s September 12 order rejecting its application against the maintainability of a plea asking permission for worship of Hindu deities on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi Masjid.
The request was made jointly by the attorneys for the parties involved, and Justice J. J. Munir granted it.
The high court set the hearing date for October 19 and ordered that all documents used by the district judge to dismiss the application under Order 7 Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) must be photocopied and forwarded to this court by Wednesday.
According to the high court, the district judge must verify the photocopies.
On September 12, the Varanasi district court rejected the mosque committee’s contention that the case was unmaintainable and agreed to hear a plea from several Hindu women asking for daily worship of Hindu gods whose idols are displayed on the Gyanvapi Masjid’s outside wall.
The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee’s plea challenging the case’s maintainability was denied by District Judge A K Vishvesh, reigniting the conflict between the Kashi Vishwanath temple and the Gyanvapi Masjid.
The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 was referenced by the mosque committee in support of its argument in its rejected appeal. The mosque committee has now filed a revision petition on October 15 in the high court against the district court order.
