Gyanvapi Allahabad HC Verdict: Will File Caveat If Mosque Committee Moves SC, Says Hindu Side

Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, who appeared for the Hindu side said that they will file a caveat in the top court if the Mosque committee challenges the Allahabad High Court verdict in Supreme Court.

As the Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed the petition filed by the Gyanvapi Mosque Committee's against the Varanasi Court's order allowing 'Puja' inside the Vyas Basement, the lawyers on Hindu side said that they are ready to fight the case in Supreme Court.

Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, who appeared for the Hindu side told ANI that they will file a caveat in the top court if the Mosque committee challenges the high court vedict in  the Supreme Court.

"Today, the Allahabad High Court has dismissed the first appeal from orders of Anjuman Intezamia which was directed against the order of 17th and 31st January and the effect of the order is that the ongoing puja in the 'Vyas Tehkhana' of Gyanvapi complex will continue. If the Anjuman Intezamia comes to the Supreme Court, we will file our caveat before the SC..."

Welcoming the high court verdict on the Gyanvapi case, Advocate Hari Shankar Jain, said , "It is a decision worth welcoming. The right that Hindus have to perform puja has been maintained by the High Court. Hindus were performing puja in the Vyas Tehkhana until 1993, but they were stopped unlawfully. They (the Muslim side) can move Supreme Court, but we are also ready to oppose..."

Advocate Subhash Nandan Chaturvedi said, "...Today, even the High Court accepted that puja and religious rituals used to take place there, and in 1993, without any document or order the religious rituals were stopped...So, the District Court's order was upheld today...The High Court ruled in our favour." 

On February 15, the high court had reserved verdict in the petition moved by Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee to stop the Hindu side from offering prayers at Vyas basement in the Gyanvapi mosque.

A bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal today delivered the verdict in favour of the Hindu side. 

Before approaching the high court, the Mosque committee had moved the Supreme Court. However, the apex court refused to urgently hear a petition filed by the Gyanvapi Mosque Committee against the Varanasi court's order allowing pooja in the Vyas basement and asked it to approach the high court first.