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New Delhi: The status quo is to be maintained in the Gyanvapi mosque complex, the Supreme Court ordered Monday as it issued a notice on the mosque management committees appeal against the Allahabad High Courts decision to allow religious observances by Hindu priests in the cellar of the disputed site...
A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice D.Y. CHandrachud ordered: it would be appropriate to maintain a status quo so as to enable both the communities to offer religious worship in the terms of the order (trial court and high court)...
Directing the appeal be listed in the third week of July, the court said the party on whose application the Varanasi civil court allowed Hindu prayers in the cellar located below the mosque, shall submit their response to the mosque committees appeal on or before 30 April...
On 26 February, the Allahabad HC dismissed the Gyanvapi Mosque management committees appeal against the trial court of 17 and 31 January allowing worship rituals inside the Vyas Tehkhana situated in the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque...
Assailing both the Varanasi civil court and Allahabad HC orders, senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi who appeared for the mosque committee submitted that the directions were in the form of mandatory injunctions and virtually amounted to the grant of final relief at the interlocutory or the interim stage...
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