NEW DELHI: Alleging undue haste on part of the local authority to implement the lower court’s order allowing puja in the southern cellar of Gyanvapi mosque, its custodian Anjuman Intezamia Masjid rushed to SC overnight for an urgent hearing but SC registry turned down its plea and asked it to move the Allahabad HC against the lower court order.
The committee approached SC registrar with an application for urgent hearing, alleging that the local administration was in a hurry to cut the grills on the southern side of the mosque.
“There is no reason for the administration to undertake this task in hot haste in the dead of the night as the order passed by the trial court had already given them one week to make the necessary arrangements. The obvious reason for such unseemly haste is that the administration, in collusion with the plaintiffs, is trying to foreclose any attempt by the Mosque Committee to avail of remedies against the said order by presenting them with a fait accompli,” the application said.
The registrar, however, informed AIM’s advocate-on-record Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi that he had to approach Allahabad HC against trial court order. The committee thereafter rushed to HC with a plea for urgent hearing on its appeal.