GYANVAPI MOSQUE SHIV LING CLAIM- Supreme Court Hearing- Live Updates

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20 May 2022 2:08 PM IST

  • GYANVAPI MOSQUE SHIV LING CLAIM- Supreme Court Hearing- Live Updates

    The Supreme Court will hear today the Masjid Committee's plea challenging the survey ordered by a Varanasi Court in Gyanvapi mosque complex.A 3-judge bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud, Surya Kant and PS Narasimha to hear the Masjid Committee's challenge against Varanasi Court's orders at 3 PM today.A Varanasi Court directed the sealing of a spot in the Gyanvapi Mosque complex after...

    The Supreme Court will hear today the Masjid Committee's plea challenging the survey ordered by a Varanasi Court in Gyanvapi mosque complex.

    A 3-judge bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud, Surya Kant and PS Narasimha to hear the Masjid Committee's challenge against Varanasi Court's orders at 3 PM today.

    A Varanasi Court directed the sealing of a spot in the Gyanvapi Mosque complex after being told that a Shiva Linga was found inside premises by the court-appointed Advocate Commissioner during the survey.

    Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Management Committee has moved Supreme Court challenging the survey ordered by a Varanasi court in Gyanvapi Mosque premises on a plea by a few Hindu devotees.

     On May 17, the Court had directed for protection of the spot where ShivLing was stated to be found and clarified that there will be no obstruction to the rights of Muslims for namaz & religious observances.

    The plaintiffs before Varanasi court, who are Hindu devotees, have filed reply in Supreme Court disputing that the #Gyanvapi is a mosque and contending that the property has always vested with the deity.

    Stay on this page for live-updates from the Court hearing :


    Live Updates

    • 20 May 2022 3:58 PM IST

      J Chandrachud : The ascertainment of religious character of a place as a processural instrument may not fall foul of Section 3 or 4. These are matters where we will not hazard an opinion in our order. We are in a dialogue.

    • 20 May 2022 3:56 PM IST

      J Chandrachud : Suppose there is an aghyari. And there is a cross. Does the presence of cross not make the place an aghyari? Does the presence of cross make it a Christian place? Such hybrid nature are not unknown in India.

    • 20 May 2022 3:55 PM IST

      Ahmadi : Why did you appoint a Commission? To find out if there are deities etc. This is an extension of bar under Section 3.

      Chandrachud : But the ascertainment of religious character is not barred.

    • 20 May 2022 3:54 PM IST

      Ahmadi : Your lorships have seen the objectives of the Act, it is not to allow controversies like this to fester.

      He reads Section 3. Points out it is an absolute bar on religious character of a place of worship and there is no exception to this

    • 20 May 2022 3:53 PM IST

      Ahmadi reads out Section 4 of the Places of Worship Act.

      J Chandrachud : There are various nuances of the Act, which will fall for consideration. What 4 does is..

      Ahamdi : Before that there is Section 3

      DYC : Read 3.

    • 20 May 2022 3:53 PM IST

      Ahmadi : The prayer in the suit is to change of religious character..

      J Chandrachud : The earlier suit is a title suit. This is a worshippers suit.

      Ahmadi : Which makes it worse. Without a declaration you cannot seek a right.

    • 20 May 2022 3:52 PM IST

      Ahmadi reads out the statements of objectives of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991.

    • 20 May 2022 3:51 PM IST

      Ahmadi: The commission has gone ahead and the order of sealing has been passed. Just want to show some provisos of the Act & the directions passed by the 5 judge bench which your lordships in Ayodhya case seeking to interdict mischief like this.

    • 20 May 2022 3:51 PM IST

      J Chandrachud : Mr.Solicitor, what according to you are arrangements of wazu at the mosque?

      SG : That I have to take instructions.

      Vaidyanathan : The issue is of desecration..

      Ahmadi: My point is that you are changing the status quo. It was a pond...

    • 20 May 2022 3:50 PM IST

      J Chandrachud : If according to you as result of our order, the issue of wazu remains unattended we can pass some orders for protection of wazu.

      Solicitor General : There are factual errors in his submissions.

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