Lagatar24 Desk
Lucknow, July 7: A hearing in the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi case will take place today in Mathura’s court of civil judge (senior division), as the Shahi Eidgah mosque management committee pushes for the resolution of the application contesting the case’s maintainability.
The attorneys for petitioner deity Thakur Keshav Dev Maharaj are advocating for the appointment of a court commissioner (ameen) to conduct a survey of the Shahi Eidgah mosque, whose removal the petitioners want.
The Shahi Eidgah mosque was allegedly built on a portion of a 13.37-acre plot of property that belongs to the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Trust, according to petitioners in almost a dozen petitions related to the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi controversy that was filed in Mathura court. They have demanded that the trust receive its ownership of the mosque land back.
Petitioners speaking on behalf of Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi have contested the 12.10.1968 settlement between Shahi Masjid Eidgah and Shri Krishna Janmasthan Seva Sangh, which was a component of suit no. 43 of 1967. Because the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Trust, which has ownership and title, was not a party to the settlement, the petitioners contend that it lacks legal validity.
Along with other opposing parties, the management committee of the Shahi Eidgah mosque objected to these petitions, claiming that they had been submitted with the undue delay because the compromise had been reached in 1968 but the ruling and decree in case number 43 of 1967 had only been rendered in 1974. They argued that as a result, the petition as a whole was null and void.
Additionally, the petitioners assert that the mosque was erected where a temple had previously been destroyed by Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor.
