The Supreme Court docket is scheduled to listen to on Friday a petition difficult the November 19 order of a district courtroom, which directed {that a} survey be undertaken of a Mughal-era mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal.
In keeping with the trigger listing of November 29 uploaded on the apex courtroom web site, a bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna is scheduled to listen to the plea filed by the Committee of Administration, Shahi Jama Masjid, Sambhal.
The plea has sought an ex-parte keep on the operation of the November 19 order handed by the civil decide.
“The new haste wherein the survey was allowed and performed all inside a day and instantly one other survey was performed with a discover of barely six hours has given rise to widespread communal tensions and threatens the secular and democratic cloth of the nation,” the plea mentioned.
Rigidity has been brewing in Sambhal since November 19 when the court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid was carried out following claims {that a} Harihar temple beforehand stood on the website.
Violence erupted on November 24 as protesters gathered close to the mosque and clashed with safety personnel, resulting in stone pelting and arson. 4 individuals died and scores of others have been injured within the violence.
