SC grants two weeks to Centre to file reply to pleas difficult Places of Worship Act
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted two weeks’ time to the Centre to file its reply on pleas difficult the validity of sure provisions of a 1991 regulation, which prohibit the submitting of a lawsuit to reclaim a spot of worship or search a change in its character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947.
A 3-judge bench headed by Chief justice Uday Umesh Lalit permitted all of the purposes, together with the plea filed by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, to intervene within the listening to of the pleas on the validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991.
The bench, additionally comprising Justices S Ravindra Bhat and P S Narasimha, ordered that the issues be heard by a three-judge bench on October 11 and requested the events to finish the pleadings by then.
The prime court docket, on March 12, final yr, had sought the Centre’s response to one of many pleas filed by lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay difficult the validity of sure provisions of the regulation which supplies sustaining the established order with regard to possession and the character of spiritual locations as prevailing on August 15, 1947.
The petition alleged that the 1991 regulation creates an “arbitrary and irrational retrospective cut-off date” of August 15, 1947 for sustaining the character of the locations of worship or pilgrimage towards encroachment finished by “fundamentalist-barbaric invaders and law-breakers”.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted two weeks’ time to the Centre to file its reply on pleas difficult the validity of sure provisions of a 1991 regulation, which prohibit the submitting of a lawsuit to reclaim a spot of worship or search a change in its character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947.
A 3-judge bench headed by Chief justice Uday Umesh Lalit permitted all of the purposes, together with the plea filed by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, to intervene within the listening to of the pleas on the validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991.
The bench, additionally comprising Justices S Ravindra Bhat and P S Narasimha, ordered that the issues be heard by a three-judge bench on October 11 and requested the events to finish the pleadings by then.
The prime court docket, on March 12, final yr, had sought the Centre’s response to one of many pleas filed by lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay difficult the validity of sure provisions of the regulation which supplies sustaining the established order with regard to possession and the character of spiritual locations as prevailing on August 15, 1947.
The petition alleged that the 1991 regulation creates an “arbitrary and irrational retrospective cut-off date” of August 15, 1947 for sustaining the character of the locations of worship or pilgrimage towards encroachment finished by “fundamentalist-barbaric invaders and law-breakers”.
