The Allahabad High Court will today pronounce its verdict in the ongoing dispute between the Jama Masjid and the Harihar Mandir in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh. The High Court will give its judgment on the civil revision petition filed by the mosque committee. The verdict will be delivered this afternoon by a single bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal. The Jama Masjid Management Committee had filed a civil revision petition challenging the maintainability of a suit that led to a survey order by the Sambhal Civil Court.
The committee is contesting the lower court’s decision dated November 19, 2024, which directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), along with an Advocate Commissioner, to survey the mosque premises.
The situation escalated during the second round of the survey, resulting in violence that left four people dead.
The Allahabad High Court issued an interim stay on the civil court’s survey directive after the Mosque committee approached it, and also stayed proceedings in the original suit.
The High Court had reserved its judgment after final arguments concluded on the 13th of this month.
The original suit in the civil court claimed that the Jama Masjid was constructed over a pre-existing Harihar Temple. The plaintiffs have sought the right to worship at what they claim is the original temple site.
