Adjourning the hearing until October 30, the court directed a reminder be sent along with the last order to the high court's registry.
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NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Monday issued a firm reminder to the Allahabad High Court’s registry to send requisite information and documents regarding the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Eidgah Mosque dispute, which is currently being heard by the high court, reports LiveLaw.
During Tuesday’s hearing, the court revealed that despite its earlier order, no information or document has been received from the registry of the Allahabad High Court. While adjourning the hearing until October 30, the court directed a reminder be sent along with the last order to the high court’s registry.
The mosque committee’s lawyer also told the court that the filing of the suits praying for various reliefs with respect to the land dispute was a recent occurrence motivated by ‘outsiders’, even though different religious communities have lived in the region in communal harmony for the last 50 years.
A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia is currently hearing a special leave petition filed by the mosque committee challenging a May 2023 order of the Allahabad High Court transferring to itself a clutch of suits over the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Eidgah Mosque dispute.
The controversy is related to Mughal emperor Aurangazeb-era Shahi Eidgah mosque at Mathura, which is alleged to be built after demolishing the Temple at the birth place of Sri Krishna.
