The Allahabad High Court will next hear on July 14 the plea of the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board and the Management Committee of the Gyanvapi Masjid to seek some more clarifications from the counsel for the parties in the matter of survey of the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi.
The Allahabad High Court will next hear on July 14 the plea of the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board and the Management Committee of the Gyanvapi Masjid to seek some more clarifications from the counsel for the parties in the matter of survey of the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi. After a brief hearing in the matter on Friday, Justice Prakash Padia directed the next hearing to be held on July 14. The petitioners have filed this petition challenging the Varanasi court’s direction to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a comprehensive survey of the Gyanvapi mosque.
Along with this, he has also challenged the maintainability of the suit requesting to restore the temple at the site of the mosque. This case is pending in the court of Varanasi. Earlier, Justice Prakash Padia had reserved its judgment on November 28, 2022 after hearing both the sides in detail. The court had also directed that till the matter is decided, its interim order staying the Varanasi court’s direction for the ASI survey will stand. However, Justice Prakash Padia, in his order dated May 24, said that certain further clarifications needed to be obtained from the concerned parties and posted the matter for further hearing on May 26, 2023.
The court had listed both the maintainability of the suit and the ASI survey for hearing on Friday. Earlier, on April 8, 2021, the Varanasi court, while hearing a petition seeking restoration of the temple at the Gyanvapi mosque site, directed the ASI to conduct a comprehensive survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex. Subsequently, the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid (AIM), the management committee of Gyanvapi Masjid and the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board challenged the order of the Varanasi court by filing the present petition in the High Court.
After this, the High Court on September 9, 2021 stayed the order of April 8 of the Varanasi court. Justice Prakash Padia had reserved his judgment in the matter on November 28, 2022 and also directed that the interim stay on the order of the Varanasi court would continue till the decision of the High Court.
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