Rajat Sharma, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India TV.
The Supreme Court gave a major order in the temple mosque cases going on in the lower courts. Lower courts will no longer give any interim or final verdict in cases related to temple and mosque. Will not order survey of any mosque anywhere. At present, no new case regarding the temple and mosque will be started in any court. In the old cases which are going on, the lower court can hear them but cannot give any order.
During the hearing on the applications filed regarding the Places of Worship Act of 1991, the Supreme Court has asked the Central Government to respond in this matter within four weeks and till the next hearing, stopped the lower courts from giving any order in the temple-mosque disputes. .
Although the litigants had sought a stay on the lower court proceedings in 18 cases like Krishna Janmasthan and Shahi Idgah in Mathura, Bhojshala dispute in Dhar, Atala Majid in Jaunpur, Shivling dispute in Khwaja Dargah in Ajmer, the Supreme Court It refused to stay the proceedings of the courts, but ordered the lower court to take no effective action in such a case till the next hearing in the Supreme Court. Do not order.
Now the Central Government has to present its stand on the Places of Worship Act 1991 in four weeks. In the next four weeks, the litigants will get a chance to respond to the Central Government’s stand, which means there will be a break on the disputes related to the temple and mosque for at least the next two months.
The Muslim side is calling this order of the Supreme Court a big victory. The Hindu side says that the Supreme Court has only followed the procedure, this order is not a big deal. Lawyers are interpreting the Supreme Court order in their own way, talking about legal complications, but the bottom line is that the Places of Worship Act says that the character of the religious place that existed in 1947 will remain intact. . It cannot be changed, that is, the mosque which was there will remain a mosque, the temple which was there, will remain a temple.
Ever since the lower court ordered a survey in the Gyanvapi case, there has been a sudden flood of such cases. Apart from Mathura, survey was ordered in Dhar’s Bhojshala. Then the order for survey in Sambhal came within two hours of the application. Due to this affair, violence took place in Sambhal, five people died.
A petition was filed regarding Khwaja’s Dargah in Ajmer. Vishnu Shankar Jain and Harishankar Jain said that they have prepared at least a dozen more such files. That is why the Muslim parties directly reached the Supreme Court and got relief from the Supreme Court. Now at least until the Supreme Court gives a final decision on the legality of the Places of Worship Act of 1991, such disputes will remain on hold and it should be trusted that the Supreme Court will take such a decision after which Shivlinga will be found under every mosque. And the political uproar on the issue of temple and mosque will stop forever. (Rajat Sharma)
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