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Time of India
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
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Sambhal Jama Masjid Dispute Case: Allahabad HC Rejects Muslim Side's Review Petition, Locals React In a significant verdict, the Allahabad High Court on May 19 rejected the Muslim side's plea, dismissing the review petition and upholding the trial court's order in the Sambhal Jama Masjid dispute case. The Hindu side's suit is 'not barred', the court ruled. The court said the order to appoint a court commissioner and the suit were maintainable. The dispute relates to the mosque and Harihar temple at Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. The case involves a revision petition filed by the masjid committee challenging a Sambhal court order for a survey.#allahabadhighcourt #sambhalmasjidverdict #hindusidesuit #trialcourtupheld #courtsurvey #masjidplearejected #harihartempledispute #uttarpradesh #religiousdispute #placesofworshipact #toi #toibharat 12.2K views | 2 days ago
New Indian Express
20-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Sambhal mosque survey: HC rejects plea seeking to halt trial court proceedings
LUCKNOW : The Allahabad High Court on Monday rejected the Sambhal Shahi Jama Masjid Committee's civil revision petition against the trial court's order directing an Advocate Commissioner to survey the mosque in connection with a suit that claimed the mosque was built after destroying the Harihar temple, which existed there. However, with Monday's order, the High Court bench, comprising Justice Rohit Ranjan Roy, upheld the trial court's survey order and added that the Hindu plaintiffs are prima facie not barred. Sambhal Civil Judge Senior Division Aditya Singh passed the order for surveying the mosque on November 19, 2024, appointing Ramesh Singh Raghav as Advocate Commissioner. After completing arguments on May 13, the High Court had reserved its decision. On January 8, 2025, the High Court issued an interim order staying the survey and seeking responses from all opposing parties.
Time of India
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Allahabad high court upholds trial court order, backs Sambhal mosque survey
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court dismissed on Monday the Sambhal Shahi Jama Masjid committee's petition challenging a Nov 19, 2024 trial court order directing an advocate commissioner to survey the structure, the subject of a suit claiming that the mosque was built in 1526 after demolishing a temple, reports Rajesh Kumar Pandey. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now While upholding the trial court's survey order, Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal vacated the interim stay on the Hindu plaintiffs ' suit. The mosque committee had asked for the suit to be dismissed on the ground that the Hindu side's claim to the site was prima facie barred under the Places of Worship Act, 1991. The legislation prohibits conversion of any place of worship and mandates maintaining the religious character of any such site that existed on Aug 15, 1947. HC: Plaintiffs only seeking right to access to Sambhal site This is not a case where any conversion of place of worship is taking place or the religious character is being changed. The plaintiffs have only sought right to access to a protected monument, declared in 1920 under Section 18 of Ancient Monument and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958, the 45-page judgment states. In its petition, the mosque committee contended that the civil judge (junior division) ordered the survey "hastily" and "without issuing notice". Based on the Nov 19 directive, a survey was conducted that very day and another one on Nov 24. Later that month, SC stayed proceedings in the trial court until the mosque committee's petition against the survey order was heard by an HC bench. Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) said in its submission to the bench that the mosque had been designated as a protected monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act , 1958. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now This effectively means that its status is governed by preservation laws rather than religious classification. ASI also mentioned that nowhere in official records was the mosque described as a religious place. The Hindu plaintiffs contend that the disputed Sambhal mosque stands at what used to be site of an ancient Harihar temple dedicated to Kalki, last avatar of Vishnu. The suit claims in 1526, on orders of Mughal emperor Babar, the temple was partially demolished and a mosque built over it.
The Hindu
19-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Allahabad High Court upholds lower court's order appointing Advocate Commissioner to survey Sambhal mosque
The Allahabad High Court on Monday (May 19, 2025) upheld a lower court's order appointing an Advocate Commissioner to survey the 'disputed' Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal. The mosque committee had approached the High Court challenging the survey, which was ordered under the suit filed by Hindu plaintiffs claiming the mosque had been built on the site by Mughal emperor Babur in 1526 after demolishing the Harihar temple, dedicated to Kalki, the last avatar of Lord Vishnu as per mythology. Last November, a civil court in Sambhal ordered a survey of the mosque by an Advocate Commissioner. Soon after, Ramesh Raghav, the designated officer, conducted a harried survey of the mosque. The survey was followed by communal violence in the town, leading to the death of four persons. The mosque committee, in its arguments, submitted that the dispute regarding the mosque had already been settled in the year 1877 and could not be adjudicated in the instant suit. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal observed that the lower had not committed any error, irregularity or illegality in allowing the survey. 'The argument set up by advocate SFA Naqvi that dispute in regard to Masjid already stood settled in 1877 and decree having been confirmed by this Court cannot be accepted at this stage in view of the fact that judgment of 1877 speaks of an old building, whereas in 1920 Juma Masjid was declared as a protected monument under the Act of 1904,' the court noted. The court added that if the title suit was decided in favour of the mosque committee in the year 1877, then, why had it entered into an agreement in the year 1927 subjecting the structure in dispute to the Act of 1904 as the alleged agreement does not reveal the ownership of the mosque committee and clearly noted that the structure needed to be protected in pursuance of the Act of 1904 by Archaeological Department. The court also noted this was not a case where any conversion of place of worship was taking place or any religious character of the place of worship was being changed and that the Hindu petitioners had only sought the right to access to a protected monument declared in the year 1920, under Section 18 of the Act of 1958. 'Once, it is an admitted position that the structure in question has been declared as a protected monument in 1920 and the same remained unchallenged till date, it is bound to be governed by provisions of law which existed when the notification was made and, thereafter, the laws enacted to govern such protected monument,' the court said. It added that once the revisionist himself has subjected to the Act of 1904 (Act to provide for the preservation of Ancient Monuments) and, thereafter, to 1958 (Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act), he cannot take shelter of the Places of Worship Act of 1991 that aims to prevent the conversion of any place of worship and maintain the religious character as it was on August 15, 1947.
Time of India
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Sambhal Jama Masjid Dispute Case: Allahabad HC Rejects Muslim Side's Review Petition, Locals React
/ May 19, 2025, 08:11PM IST In a significant verdict, the Allahabad High Court on May 19 rejected the Muslim side's plea, dismissing the review petition and upholding the trial court's order in the Sambhal Jama Masjid dispute case. The Hindu side's suit is 'not barred', the court ruled. The court said the order to appoint a court commissioner and the suit were maintainable. The dispute relates to the mosque and Harihar temple at Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. The case involves a revision petition filed by the masjid committee challenging a Sambhal court order for a survey.#allahabadhighcourt #sambhalmasjidverdict #hindusidesuit #trialcourtupheld #courtsurvey #masjidplearejected #harihartempledispute #uttarpradesh #religiousdispute #placesofworshipact #toi #toibharat
