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This is an archive article published on January 22, 2025
Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Eidgah masjid dispute: SC extends stay on Mathura mosque survey till April
The bench fixed the case for hearing in the week commencing April 1, 2025.
The high court had allowed a court-monitored survey of the Shahi Idgah mosque complex and agreed to the appointment of a court commissioner to oversee it. (Express Photo by Apurva Vishwanath)
The Supreme Court Wednesday extended the stay on the Allahabad High Court’s December 14, 2023, order allowing an application for the inspection of the Shahi Idgah complex in Mathura by a court-appointed commissioner in connection with the Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah Masjid dispute.
A bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan, which took up appeals filed by the Mosque Committee challenging the HC order, directed that the stay be continued.
The bench fixed the case for hearing in the week commencing April 1, 2025.
Ordering the stay for the first time on January 16 last year, the Supreme Court said there were legal issues arising which needed to be decided.
Hindu petitioners contend that the mosque was built on the Krishna Janmasthan, the birthplace of Lord Krishna and have instituted suits for this.
The mosque committee had approached the Supreme Court saying that its petitions challenging the Allahabad High Court order transferring to itself all suits in connection with the dispute were pending and the High Court should not have given any interim relief to the Hindu side in the meantime.
In December 2023, the High Court ordered that the suits are not barred by the Places of Worship Act, 1991. This has also been challenged before the Supreme Court.
© The Indian Express (P) Ltd
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