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Mint
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Mint
Sambhal mosque row: Allahabad HC upholds survey order of Shahi Jama Masjid, rejects Muslim side's petition
Sambhal mosque row: The Allahabad High Court on Monday, upheld the trial court's November 2024 order concerning a petition alleging that a temple was dismantled to construct the Mughal-era mosque. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal hearing the case also added that the Hindu plaintiffs is prima facie not barred, reported legal news agency Live Law. The Sambhal mosque management committee, on November 19, 2024, had filed a civil revision petition seeking a stay on the ongoing trial court proceedings in an original suit pending before the district court in Sambhal. Widespread violence broke out in Sambhal on November 24, 2024, when a mob assembled to prevent the Advocate Commission team from conducting a survey at the 500-year-old mosque, leading to clashes with the police. Tensions had been simmering in Sambhal since November 19, when a local court ordered a survey of the Jama Masjid. The court directive sparked opposition, and protests against the survey escalated into violent clashes with the police, resulting in the deaths of four people. The court-ordered survey stemmed from a petition filed by local individuals who claimed that the mosque stood on the original site of a Harihar temple—dedicated to Kalki, the final incarnation of Lord Vishnu—which they allege was demolished in 1526 to construct the mosque. In November 2024, the Supreme Court intervened, staying the trial court proceedings and instructing it not to hear the matter until the mosque committee's petition challenging the survey order is listed before the Allahabad High Court. Advocate Vishnu Shankar, representing the Hindu side in the case, said that the Allahabad High Court's decision to uphold the trial court's order to survey the Shahi Jama Masjid is a very important decision.
India Today
19-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Allahabad High Court upholds Sambhal survey order, rejects mosque panel's plea
The Allahabad High Court on Monday upheld the order for a survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal, dismissing the Mosque Committee's plea challenging the trial court's November 2024 order on a petition alleging that a temple was dismantled to construct the Mughal-era violence erupted in Sambhal on November 24, 2024, when a mob gathered to stop the Advocate Commission team -- which arrived for the survey at the 500-year-old mosque -- and clashed with the at the trial court level were stayed by the Supreme Court, with a directive that no further action be taken until the High Court addressed the mosque committee's petition against the survey order. With the order from the single bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal, the survey case is now expected to proceed in the Sambhal district mosque committee has filed a civil revision petition seeking a stay on the ongoing trial court proceedings in an original suit pending before the district court in Sambhal. It argued that the order for the survey was passed hastily and without issuing them prior notice and also pointed out that the mosque was surveyed twice, once on the same day as the order and again on November 24, the day the violence the Hindu plaintiffs -- advocate Hari Shankar Jain and seven others -- have claimed that the mosque in question was originally the site of an ancient Hari Har Temple, which, in 1526, was partly demolished and converted into a mosque on the orders of the Mughal ruler Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), in its response to the court, said that the mosque has been designated as a centrally protected monument, which cannot be characterised as a place of public worship as there were no supporting records for such a Advocate Commissioner Ramesh Raghav, who led the survey, has already submitted a sealed survey report to the trial Watch IN THIS STORY#Sambhal
