Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 21: The Supreme Court while hearing the petitions of the Gyanvapi Masjid committee on Thursday in the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi Masjid issue, said that it would wait for the Varanasi district court’s order on the maintainability of suit.
The hearing in the case has been postponed by the apex court until the first week of October.
On Thursday, the Varanasi court will hear arguments over the maintainability of a petition filed by five Hindu women asking for permission to visit the Shringar Gauri Sthal inside the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi Masjid complex.
Earlier, a Shivling-like structure was discovered on the mosque compound. It was disputed by the Masjid committee as a fountain rather than a Shivling.
The finding was the part of a report on the Gyanvapi mosque video survey that court-appointed special assistant commissioner Vishal Singh presented to the Varanasi court on May 19.
The Places of Worship Act, 1991, which preserves a site’s religious character as it existed on August 15, 1947, is the reason why the Masjid panel is contesting the plaintiffs’ lawsuit on the grounds that it is banned by the law.
The Hindu plaintiffs have so far contended that the 1991 law does not preclude their lawsuit and that their suit was filed to provide proof of the disputed site’s religious nature as of August 15, 1947.
