The Supreme Court docket is ready to listen to a petition on Friday that challenges a district court docket’s November 19 order, which directed a survey of a Mughal-era mosque in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh. The petition, filed by the Committee of Administration, Shahi Jama Masjid, Sambhal, seeks an ex-parte keep on the operation of the district court docket’s order.
In line with the trigger listing printed on the Supreme Court docket’s web site for November 29, a bench led by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna will hear the plea. The petition contends that the survey, ordered by a civil choose, was carried out unexpectedly and will result in communal tensions, jeopardizing the secular cloth of the nation.
The petitioners argue that the survey was carried out in an alarmingly swift method, with a second survey carried out barely six hours after the preliminary one. “The recent haste wherein the survey was allowed and carried out all inside a day, and all of the sudden one other survey was carried out with a discover of barely six hours, has given rise to widespread communal tensions,” the petition reads. It additional asserts that this might “threaten the secular and democratic cloth of the nation.”
Tensions have been escalating in Sambhal ever because the court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid on November 19. The survey adopted claims {that a} Harihar temple as soon as stood on the website the place the mosque now stands. These claims have stirred up feelings and sparked debates concerning the historic significance of the location.
The state of affairs took a violent activate November 24, when protests erupted close to the mosque, resulting in clashes between demonstrators and safety forces. The violence escalated into stone pelting and arson, ensuing within the deaths of 4 folks and leaving a number of others injured. The unrest highlighted the rising friction between completely different neighborhood teams within the area, additional intensifying the controversy surrounding the mosque and its historic claims.
The petition difficult the survey order comes at a time when communal tensions are at a peak within the area. The end result of the Supreme Court docket’s listening to on Friday may have important implications for the continuing dispute over the Shahi Jama Masjid and its historic significance. It stays to be seen how the court docket will deal with the considerations raised within the petition, particularly with the backdrop of current violence in Sambhal.
