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Trust in judiciary can t be frittered away by show of power: SC
The Supreme Court said it was shocked by the Allahabad High Court order, which summoned Uttar Pradesh government officers in a contempt case, despite the proceedings having been stayed by it.
| 8 April 2021 1:13 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said it was shocked by the Allahabad High Court order, which summoned Uttar Pradesh government officers in a contempt case, despite the proceedings having been stayed by it.
A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hemant Gupta said: The frequent, causal and lackadaisical summoning of high officials by the Court cannot be appreciated. We may add that this does not mean that in compelling situations, the same cannot be done but the object cannot be to humiliate senior officials.
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NEW DELHI: Sixteen months after deciding the Ayodhya land dispute, the Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre’s response to a PIL challenging the validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 which barred courts from entertaining civil suits for changing the character of religious places from what it was at the time of Independence.
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde, who was part of the five-judge bench that decided the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi dispute in favour of Hindus on November 9, 2019, and Justice A S Bopanna issued notices to the ministries of home, law and culture on the PIL filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
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