Mathura court docket directed for fast disposal of plea for deputing advocate to survey Shahi Idgah mosque

By PTI

MATHURA: An extra district decide right here on Thursday directed a decrease court docket for fast disposal of a plea for appointing a court docket commissioner to survey the Shahi Idgah mosque and confirm the claims of temple’s indicators in it.

The petitioners moved the court docket of extra district decide with a revision utility after the decrease court docket of civil decide (senior division) on May 23 requested Shahi Idgah mosque’s administration committee and others to file their objections to a plea in search of survey of the mosque and stuck July 1 as the following date of listening to on the reopening of courts after summer season trip.

“Revision application was disposed of with the direction for the lower court to dispose of the plea regarding sending an advocate commissioner to the mosque on a day-to-day basis from next hearing,” District Government Counsel Sanjai Gaur mentioned.

Rajendra Maheshwari, the counsel for the petitioners of the go well with, mentioned, “Lower court of civil judge (senior division) has also been directed by Additional District Judge Sanjai Chaudhari (in-charge district judge for appeal and revision) not to delay hearing of the application pertaining to sending an advocate commissioner (to mosque). The application was submitted by Delhi-based Jai Bhagwan Goyal and four others.”

The petitioners had filed an utility within the court docket of Civil Judge (senior division) Jyoti Singh on May 23 for sending an advocate commissioner to survey Shahi Idgah Masjid advanced claiming presence of temple marks within the mosque, Maheshwari mentioned.

The court docket as a substitute of disposing of the applying filed beneath urgency clause, had set July 1 for subsequent date of listening to, the petitioners’ counsel mentioned.

Aggrieved by the choice, the petitioners moved a revision utility in opposition to the order of civil decide (senior division) within the court docket of District Judge Mathura, who transferred the applying within the court docket of ADJ (seventh) on Thursday, Maheshwari mentioned.

In the revision utility, the order of decrease court docket was termed faulty because the urgency clause talked about within the utility was not thought of, the counsel mentioned.

The decrease court docket is listening to a bunch of fits for the removing of Shahi Idgah Masjid from close to the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple within the Katra Keshav Dev Temple advanced and subsequent interim functions for appointing a court docket commissioner to survey the mosque.

The petitioners have sought the mosque’s survey, claiming the existence of a number of indicators of temples, like these of “om, swastika and lotus” inside it in addition to its alleged “Hindu architecture”.

The pleas have been filed by deity Thakur Keshav Dev Ji Maharaj virajman (in-situ) in its capability as a juristic individual, represented by advocates Mahendra Pratap Singh and Rajendra Maheshwari as its “next friend”, amongst others.

The different petitioners included United Hindu Front founder Jai Bhagwan Goyal, a Delhi resident, and Vrindavan’s Dharm Raksha Sangh president Saurabh Gaur.

The fits filed by Singh and others in December 2020 record Shahi Idgah Masjid’s Intezamia committee’s secretary, president/chairman of the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board, Srikrishna Janmasthan Seva Sansthan’s secretary and Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi Trust as respondents.