Gyanvapi Mosque Case
Gyanvapi Mosque Case: The Supreme Court will hear the petition of Gyanvapi Anjuman Masjid Establishment Committee today (Monday). The mosque committee challenged the Allahabad High Court’s decision to allow Hindus to worship in the Vyas Ji basement at the southern end of the disputed structure.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Manoj Mishra will hear the petition of the Anjuman Masjid Establishment Committee, known as Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi. In this petition challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict on February 26, the Masjid Committee demanded a ban on worship.
Further, the Allahabad High Court rejected the committee’s petition challenging the district court’s decision. In its order, the High Court said it had challenged the decision to conduct pujas in the Vyas basement of the mosque adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanatha temple. In an order dated January 31, the Varanasi court allowed Hindu devotees to offer prayers in the basement of Vyas Ji in Gyanvapi Complex. Also, petitioner Shailendra Kumar Pathak, a Hindu priest nominated on behalf of the Kashi Vishwanatha temple, said that his great-grandfather Somnath Vyas used to worship in this basement till December 1993. However, after the demolition of the controversial structure in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, the then Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav stopped worshiping in the basement. However, the Muslim side stated before the trial court that there was never an idol in the basement.