Petition for survey of Lucknow Masjid: Sessions court asks litigants to go to trial court

Hearing a civil revision suit at the Tila Wali Masjid in Lucknow, a local sessions court on Tuesday ordered the Hindu litigants to seek directions from the trial court to conduct a survey of the mosque premises, where the suit was filed in 2013 and there. Is suspended.

“The court heard the arguments of both the parties on an application seeking directions for the survey of the mosque premises. The court in its order directed the applicants to approach the lower court where the civil suit is still pending,” said lawyer Shishir Chaturvedi, who represented the Hindu litigants.

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Advocate Munnavar Sultan, representing Teela Wali Masjid, said the court passed the order after refusing to entertain the application of the Hindu litigants.

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The Sessions Court has fixed July 2 as the next date of hearing in the revision civil suit.

District public prosecutor (civil) Ritesh Rastogi said that the application seeking directions for the survey of the disputed area of ​​T Wali Masjid was filed in the sessions court on May 19. “Today, I requested the court to restrain people from making any statement. The matter is still pending in the court,” Rastogi said.

According to Rastogi, in 2013 a civil suit was filed in the lower civil court on behalf of Lord Sheshnagastha Tileshwar Mahadev Virajman, Lakshman Tila Sheshnag Teerth Bhoomi and others, claiming that during the reign of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, a Hindu The religious structure was demolished. Make way for a mosque, commonly known as the mounded mosque. The petitioners had claimed that a part of the land on which the mosque stands belonged to them and should be handed over to them.

The Muslim side opposed the case. After hearing both the sides, the civil court judge refused to quash the entire trial. Advocate Sultan said, “After the civil court rejected our application, we filed a revision petition in the sessions court against the civil court order.”