Gyanvapi case updates: Supreme Court transfers case to Varanasi District Judge

Supreme Court orders that senior and experienced judicial officer of UP Judicial services will hear the case.

Suppose there is a Parsi temple and there is a cross in the corner of the area.  Does the presence of 'agyari' make the cross agyari or agyari Christian? This hybrid character is not unknown.

 Do not leaks thing to the press, only judge opens the report, says SC.

Our order is to maintain a certain degree of peace&calm&our interim orders calms some frayed nerves with some healing touch. We're on a jt mission on preserving a sense of unification in country.

You have to see how this case is being used for 4 or 5 mosques across the country. This will create public mischief which the 1991 Worship Act wanted to avoid.

Ahmadi says Committee's challenge is to the trial court's order appointing Commission itself, it is prohibited by the 1991 Worship Act and the Constitution itself. The Act says such controversies will create great public mischief. Commission report is being selectively leaked.

Dist Judge will decide mosque committee's plea that suit by Hindu party isn't maintainable&till then interim order-protection of Shivling area, free acess to Muslims for namaz-will continue, SC suggests

"A slightly more seasoned & mature hand should hear this case. We're not making aspersion on trial judge. But more seasoned hand should deal with this case and it'll benefit all parties," SC observes

Supreme Court beings hearing of Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee's plea against the Varanasi district court order which directed videographic survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque complex, adjacent to the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

Friday namaz was held peacefully amid tight security at the disputed site in Varanasi. 

The mosque doors were shut due to overcrowding for Friday namaz. 

Allahabad High Court adjourns the hearing in the Kashi-Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi Mosque issue of Varanasi till 6th July

Only 500 Muslims have been allowed at mosque for Friday namaz, heavy police barricading on roads leading to Gyanvapi site. Muslims are thronging to mosque in huge numbers for Friday namaz.

Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rehman Barq said the claimed discovery of a Shivling in Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque complex was “false propaganda” and urged opposition parties to counter it.

The Hindu parties have told the Supreme Court that Gynavapi mosque in Varanasi is not a mosque, as Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb "did not pass any order to create a waqf over the land in question or for handing over land to any Muslim or body of Muslims".

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the civil court in Varanasi to not proceed with hearing the Gyanvapi case till it takes up the matter on Friday.

A commission appointed by a court to conduct a survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque-Shringar Gauri complex filed its report on Thursday, submitting documents, videos and photographs.

A Varanasi court hearing the Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri case on Thursday posted the matter to May 23 for the next hearing. Both the parties filed their objections and counter-objections on Thursday. In view of the Supreme Court's order to the lower court not to proceed with the matter till Friday, it fixed May 23 for the next hearing, Madan Mohan Yadav, the lawyer representing the Hindu side, said.

Main plaintiff in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case Haji Mahboob has claimed that the country will be ruined if Muslims begin a movement to save the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi and the Shahi Idgah in Mathura. He alleged that after the Babri mosque, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is now conspiring to take away the Gyanvapi mosque and the Shahi Idgah.