Sambhal: SC asks mosque panel to reply to standing report on properly

The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday granted two weeks to the mosque committee to reply to a standing report saying the disputed properly is “completely exterior” Sambhal’s Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid.

On 10 January, the highest court docket directed the Sambhal district Justice of the Peace to take care of the established order on reviving or permitting prayers at a ‘non-public’ properly positioned close to the mosque’s entrance.

Contemplating a plea of the committee of administration, Shahi Jama Masjid, Sambhal, the bench issued notices to the Centre, the director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the Sambhal district Justice of the Peace and different non-public Hindu aspect litigants led by Hari Shankar Jain.

On Tuesday, a bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar was knowledgeable by extra solicitor-general Okay.M. Natraj, showing for the Uttar Pradesh authorities and different authorities, that the properly was located after a police outpost (chowki), “completely exterior” the mosque.

The bench directed the mosque committee to file its response to the standing report of the authorities in two weeks. Senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, showing for the mosque committee, sought three weeks’ time on the bottom that the president of the mosque committee Zafar Ali was in jail.

Ali was arrested on 23 March after being questioned in reference to the 24 November 2024 violence throughout a protest in opposition to a court-ordered survey of the Mughal-era mosque.

“Take a mulaqat (assembly with an inmate in jail) and do it. Someone else also can file the response. Please do it in two weeks solely,” the CJI stated and deferred the listening to on the plea.