Gyanvapi Mosque Case Live Updates: Varanasi court decides the course of action, next hearing date today

The district court in Varanasi will today decide whether to first hear the prayer of Hindu petitioners to invite objections to the investigation report from the Gyanvapi Mosque or the Muslim side’s case that the summons cannot be upheld. The district court judge AK Vishevesh heard prayers from both sides on Monday after the Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri complex was transferred to it by the Supreme Court.

A new plea in law, authorizing the worship of “Shivling” which was allegedly found on the premises of the Gyanvapi Mosque during a videography inquiry ordered by a lower court, was also lodged. The Supreme Court had on Friday transferred the complex Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri case from a civilian judge (senior department) to a district judge and said when looking at the “complexities” and “sensitivity” of the issue, it is better if a senior judge. with an experience of over 25-30 years handling this case.

Last Friday, the Supreme Court said that the application filed by the management committee of Anjuman Intezamia Masajid, Varanasi, which challenged the maintenance of the case of five Hindu women seeking the right to worship at Maa Shringar Gauri Sthal on the mosque’s outer wall complex, “should be decided on priority by the District Judge at the transfer of the case “. It also stated that “the finding of a religious character in a place is not barred” by the Places of Worship Act (Special Provisions), 1991.