The district court in Varanasi that is hearing pleas on the Gyanvapi mosque dispute will hear objections to the survey at the site from the Muslim side on Thursday.
The court of judge A.K. Vishevesh was expected to rule on Tuesday on whether it would hear first the Hindu petitioners' plea to invite objections to the Gyanvapi mosque survey report or the Muslim side's case that the writ is not maintainable.
The court said it would hear the Muslim side's plea under order 7 11 of the CrPC (under which a litigation can be deemed meaningless and can be disposed off). “The Hindu parties had submitted yesterday [Monday] that the objections to the report of the advocate commissioner who had done a survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque and videographed the same, should be taken into account before deciding the maintainability plea,” Bar and Bench reported.
Vishnu Jain, an advocate for the Hindu side, told ANI the Varanasi court had asked both parties to the dispute to file their objections to the report of a team that surveyed the Gyanvapi complex and submit their responses within a week.
The Muslim petitioners had argued the survey at the site violated provisions of the Places of Worship Act of 1991 that aimed to prevent alteration to places of worship.