Gyanvapi Mosque Case: Supreme Court To Hear Masjid Committee's Plea Against ASI Survey Today

The Muslim party on Thursday moved the top court challenging the Allahabad High Court order.

The Muslim party on Thursday moved the top court challenging the high court's order.  

Source : PTI

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a plea of the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, which manages the Gyanvapi mosque, challenging the Allahabad High Court order allowing the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a scientific survey of the mosque premises.

 

The Muslim party on Thursday moved the top court challenging the high court's order.

 

The advocate of the Masjid Committee mentioned the matter before the Supreme Court asking not to allow the ASI to carry out the survey, news agency PTI reported. 

Advocate Nizam Pasha mentioned the matter before Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud for an urgent hearing."The Allahabad High Court has passed an order today. We have filed an SLP against the order. I have sent an email (seeking an urgent hearing). Let them not proceed with the survey...," Pasha said, as quoted by PTI. The CJI responded saying, "I will look at the email right away."

As per the PTI's report, one of the parties from the Hindu side has also filed a caveat in the Supreme Court seeking that no orders be passed without hearing them in the matter.

This comes as the High Court permitted a scientific survey at Gyanvapi, dismissing the Muslim body's petition which challenged a lower court order letting the ASI perform the survey to ascertain if the 17th-century mosque was constructed over a temple, PTI reported.

The district court order is just and proper and there is no need to meddle with it, the High Court observed while asserting that no digging should be done during the survey, as per PTI.

According to advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing the Hindu side, the High Court stated the district court's order on the ASI survey will be effective immediately.

"There is no reason to not believe the ASI's assurance that the survey will not cause any damage to the structure," the court said, as per PTI.