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Updated Apr 13, 2021 | 13:42 IST
The caveat petition says that the applicants/caveators are affected persons and they may be heard in opposition to the present application seeking a stay of the order dated 8.4.2021 in the interest of justice. Gyanvapi Mosque Complex | Credit: Sidharth Shekhar
A day after the masjid management panel - Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee - moved the Allahabad High Court against the April 8 order of a Varanasi local court for an ASI survey of the entire Kashi Vishwanath temple- Gyanvapi mosque complex to ascertain whether the mosque was built after demolishing a temple, the Hindu side on Tuesday filed a caveat that is a petition which urges the High Court to not pass any order without hearing it.
Varanasi Court orders ASI probe into Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi Mosque dispute
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The court especially called for the committee so formed to be aware of the “sensitivity of the matter” and hence ensure that stakeholders in the case belonging to both religions are equally respected and no one is treated in a “partisan or preferential” way.
A case is being separately heard by the high court in which the Muslim side had said that the Places of Worship Act applies to the disputed site and bars any alteration to a place of worship as it was on August 15, 1947.
Updated Mar 12, 2021 | 15:41 IST
Petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay says that the Act takes away the rights of Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs to reclaim their places of worship through courts and legalises illegal acts of invaders. Representational Image | Photo Credit: PTI
In a very significant development, the Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre, on a Public Interest Litigation which challenged the validity of Places of Worship Act 1991 that had provided for maintaining the status quo of religious structures as it existed on August 15, 1947.
The Act had in fact barred litigation on any place of worship for change of its character as existed in 1947, except the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case which was decided in November 2019 by a five-judge bench led by then Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi who ruled in favour of the Hindu side and cleared the decks for the construction of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya. The masjid side was given an