Plaintiffs return envelopes ‘without breaking seal’; masjid panel haven’t received it yet
Plaintiffs return envelopes ‘without breaking seal’; masjid panel haven’t received it yet
in running Gyanvapi Masjid-Kashi Vishwanath Temple ControversyBoth Hindu and Muslim parties on Tuesday approached the District Court in Varanasi, seeking a probe into how the contents of the video survey of the mosque premises were leaked to the media and public domain.
This comes a day after District and Sessions Judge AK Vishvesh accepted an undertaking by both the parties that they would not copy or leak. survey material On receipt from the court. Under these conditions, the court on Monday handed over the copies of the survey to the Hindu plaintiff.
The Anjuman Intejamiya Masjid committee is yet to receive a copy of the video survey, its lawyers said.
Ranjana Agnihotri, one of the lawyers for the Hindu plaintiff in the dispute, said that the sealed envelopes along with the discs of the video survey were handed over to the plaintiffs on Monday. “But before we could open it, we had already started seeing on news channels that it had leaked. So, on Tuesday, we returned the envelope as we had received it – without a seal. break.”
accused of traitors
Following this, Jitendra Singh, uncle of plaintiff Rakhi Singh, filed an application before the court, claiming that “anti-national elements” were behind the leak and thus seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the matter.
Senior advocate Mumtaz Ahmed, representing the mosque committee, said that he too had filed an application seeking a thorough probe into the leak and said it was a clear violation of the court’s orders.
Significantly, this is not the first time that the content of the video survey has been leaked. Earlier, when the survey was ordered by a civil court in Varanasi, parts of the video survey were leaked even before the survey report was presented in the court. Based on these leaks, the Hindu side claimed to have discovered a ShivlingWhile the Muslim side stated that the structure in question was part of the fountain inside the mosque eating wudu,
goes to the Supreme Court
Following this first leak, the Masjid Committee had approached the Supreme Court, which transferred the suit to a district court in Varanasi.
The district court is currently hearing a lawsuit filed by five Hindu women seeking their right to pray in a Hindu temple behind Gyanvapi MosqueWestern Wall throughout the year.
Meanwhile, Nikhil Upadhyay, a law student and son of BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, has filed an application before the district court seeking to appear as a plaintiff in the case.