VARANASI: A contemporary civil suit was filed within the court docket of the civil decide senior division, Varanasi, on Monday urging the court docket to nominate the Varanasi district Justice of the Peace or some other appropriate individual as receiver of the cellar (tahkhana) on the southern facet of Gyanvapi mosque.
The plaintiff, Shailendra Kumar Vyas, additionally urged the court docket to direct the receiver to permit the plaintiff, co-pujaris and devotees to carry out puja within the cellar (tahkhana) present in Gyanvapi.
Concurrently, the plaintiff filed an software within the Varanasi district court docket, urging it to switch the matter to itself (Varanasi district court docket). The district court docket fastened September 26 (Tuesday) as the subsequent date of listening to.
Advocates Vishnu Shankar Jain, Subhash Nandan Chaturvedi and Sudhir Tripathi filed the contemporary suit on behalf of Vyas and the applying for transferring it to the district court docket.
Chaturvedi mentioned, “The southern basement has been within the possession of Vyasji’s household for years. After the yr 1993, this basement has been barricaded by the orders of the state authorities.”
At the moment, as a result of ongoing ASI (Archaeological Survey of India) survey within the Gyanvapi advanced, the door of this basement situated in entrance of Nandiji is open, mentioned the plaintiff, alleging that below these circumstances, the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee, which takes care of the Gyanvapi Masjid, can take it over.”
“Due to this fact, we filed a contemporary suit within the court docket of civil decide senior division, with a prayer to nominate the district Justice of the Peace Varanasi or some other appropriate individual as receiver of the cellar (tahkhana) within the southern facet of Gyanvapi. We additionally prayed to the court docket to direct the receiver to permit the plaintiff, co pujari and devotees to carry out puja within the cellar. Concurrently, we filed an software within the Varanasi district court docket, urging the court docket to switch the contemporary suit to the district court docket.”
Chaturvedi mentioned the Varanasi district court docket fastened September 26 because the date of listening to.
Akhlaque Ahmad, counsel for the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee, mentioned, “We’ll file an objection towards the plea looking for switch of the contemporary suit to the district court docket.”
