No Survey At Mathura's Shahi Idgah Mosque For the time being, Supreme Court Stops Request

The high court - as per that directed at the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi - gave its sign of approval for the survey by a court-delegated and observed advocate commissioner.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today stopped an Allahabad High Court request that permitted a court-observed overview of the seventeenth century Shahi Idgah Mosque in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura.

The high court - as per that directed at the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi - last month gave its sign of approval for the overview by a court-designated and checked advocate commissioner.

The bench of Judges Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta saw that the reason for the arrangement of a commissioner for the mosque survey was "unclear". "You can't record an unclear application for arrangement of court commissioner. It ought to be unmistakable on the reason. You can't pass on everything to the court to investigate it," the Supreme Court said.

The Supreme Court was hearing a petition documented by the Muslim side challenging the high court order that permitted mosque survey by a commissioner.

Hindu outfits have claimed the mosque was based on the origination of Lord Krishna and had requested an overview (survey). The interest was conceded by a local court in December last year yet the Muslim side had documented a complaint in the high court.

The Hindu side had recorded a request in a Mathura court requesting full responsibility for challenged 13.37 ares of land, guaranteeing the extremely old mosque was worked by destroying the Katra Keshav Dev sanctuary that remained there before. They affirmed this was ordererd by Mughal sovereign Aurangzeb.

The solicitors guarantee, as proof, the presence of carvings of lotuses on certain walls of the mosque, too shapes apparently looking like of 'sheshnag' - the snake demigod being in Hindu mythology. This, they had contended, shows the mosque was worked over the sanctuary.

The Muslim side had before tried to excuse the appeal by refering to the Spots of Worship Act of 1991, which keeps up with the strict status of any put of worship as it was on August 15, 1947.