In a significant verdict, the Allahabad High Court on May 19 rejected the Muslim side's plea, dismissing the review petition and upholding the trial court's order in the Sambhal Jama Masjid dispute case.
The Hindu side's suit is "not barred", the court ruled. The court said the order to appoint a court commissioner and the suit were maintainable.
The dispute relates to the mosque and Harihar temple at Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. The case involves a revision petition filed by the masjid committee challenging a Sambhal court order for a survey.
The masjid committee had filed a revision petition challenging an order of the Sambhal civil court which had directed the ASI through an advocate commission.
At the last hearing (on May 12), the court had reserved its judgment in the case.
At an earlier hearing, the court had given the Sambhal Jama Masjid Committee more time for a rejoinder to the counter-affidavit filed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Advocate Hari Shanker Jain and seven others had filed a suit before the court of civil judge senior division, Sambhal, on the plea that Shahi Idgah mosque in Sambhal was built after demolishing a temple that had stood there -- in the Kot Garvi area of the city. According to the litigants, it was a temple dedicated to Kalki, the last avatar of Lord Vishnu, and built in 1526 after demolishing the temple.
Sambhal has been tense since November 24 last year when four people died and several others, including cops, were injured in clashes between the locals and the administration over the court-ordered survey of the ASI-protected Shahi Jama Masjid.
Subsequent to the violence, the Supreme Court had stayed the trial court proceedings in the case, directing it to not to hear the matter until the petition filed by the mosque committee against the survey order is listed in the Allahabad High Court.
The Hindu side's suit is "not barred", the court ruled. The court said the order to appoint a court commissioner and the suit were maintainable.
The dispute relates to the mosque and Harihar temple at Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. The case involves a revision petition filed by the masjid committee challenging a Sambhal court order for a survey.
The masjid committee had filed a revision petition challenging an order of the Sambhal civil court which had directed the ASI through an advocate commission.
At the last hearing (on May 12), the court had reserved its judgment in the case.
At an earlier hearing, the court had given the Sambhal Jama Masjid Committee more time for a rejoinder to the counter-affidavit filed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Advocate Hari Shanker Jain and seven others had filed a suit before the court of civil judge senior division, Sambhal, on the plea that Shahi Idgah mosque in Sambhal was built after demolishing a temple that had stood there -- in the Kot Garvi area of the city. According to the litigants, it was a temple dedicated to Kalki, the last avatar of Lord Vishnu, and built in 1526 after demolishing the temple.
Sambhal has been tense since November 24 last year when four people died and several others, including cops, were injured in clashes between the locals and the administration over the court-ordered survey of the ASI-protected Shahi Jama Masjid.
Subsequent to the violence, the Supreme Court had stayed the trial court proceedings in the case, directing it to not to hear the matter until the petition filed by the mosque committee against the survey order is listed in the Allahabad High Court.
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