New Delhi. The petition filed by the Muslim side in the Mathura Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi and Shahi Idgah dispute case was heard in the Supreme Court today. The bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar has asked the Muslim side to decide whether it wants to challenge the decision of the single bench of Allahabad High Court in the double bench of the High Court or not. The Supreme Court will then hear this case from November 4. The Muslim side has challenged the order of the Allahabad High Court in the Supreme Court, in which the High Court, while rejecting the objections of the Muslim side, had said that all the 18 cases filed by the Hindu side are worth hearing.
Earlier, the Hindu side had argued in the Allahabad High Court that the entire two and a half acre area of Shahi Idgah is the sanctum sanctorum of Lord Shri Krishna Virajman. The mosque was built here illegally by demolishing the temple. The Hindu side also says that the Waqf Board has misused its unlimited powers and declared this land of the temple as Waqf property. Whereas the ASI has considered this land as Nazul land, so in such a situation how can this land be Waqf’s?
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On the other hand, the Muslim side argued in the Allahabad High Court that an agreement was reached between the two parties in 1968 regarding the disputed land. It is not right to try to occupy the land by declaring this agreement as invalid 60 years after the agreement. The Muslim side demanded the dismissal of the 18 cases filed by the Hindu side, calling them unfit for hearing. Another case related to this is pending in the Supreme Court, in which the ban on the survey of the disputed premises has been extended till November in its order dated August 9.