Sambhal court directs team surveying mosque to submit report within 10 days
The court also listed the matter for hearing next on January 8.
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A trial court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal, which had ordered the survey of a Mughal-era mosque, on Friday directed the team appointed to undertake the exercise to submit its report on the findings within 10 days, PTI reported.
Civil judge Aditya Singh also listed January 8 as the next date of hearing, said Advocate Commissioner Ramesh Raghav, who had been appointed to carry out the survey.
On November 19, the court had ordered the survey to investigate claims that a Hindu temple had existed at the site before the mosque was built in 1526. It came in response to an application by a Hindu priest named Rishi Raj Giri.
Five persons were killed in violence during protests on Sunday against the survey of the mosque.
“The court was informed that the survey report had not been completed and additional time was needed,” PTI quoted Raghav as saying. “The court granted the request and set the hearing date for January 8.”
On Friday, the Supreme Court asked the Sambhal court to defer hearing the matter until the petition filed by the Shahi Jama Masjid’s management committee against the survey of the site was listed in the Allahabad High Court.
A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar also directed that the report filed by the...
