Gyanvapi Issue | Supreme Court asks Varanasi court to stop proceedings till it hears case on May 20
The Hindu
The order to the trial court to desist from proceeding further came after senior advocate Huzefa Ahamadi voiced apprehensions that further orders from the lower court may cause irredeemable harm.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Varanasi court to halt its proceedings in the Gyanvapi mosque suit until the apex court took up the case on Friday.
A Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud agreed to adjourn the case till 3 p.m. on Friday as the senior lawyer briefed by one of the parties, the five Hindu women who are plaintiffs in the suit filed before the trial court in Varanasi and are respondents before the Supreme Court in the petition filed by the mosque’s caretakers against the survey of the mosque premises, was personally indisposed due to an illness.
Lawyers on both sides present before the Bench agreed to not take up the suit proceedings in the Varanasi court till Friday.
The order to the trial court to desist from proceeding further came after senior advocate Huzefa Ahamadi voiced apprehensions that further orders from the lower court may cause irredeemable harm.
“We will keep the hearing for tomorrow, until then don’t proceed before the trial court,” Justice Chandrachud addressed advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, who appeared for the Hindu women.
The Bench directed the trial court to “strictly abide” by its order to not proceed with the suit proceedings for the time being
Mr. Jain agreed to immediately convey the Supreme Court’s order to the local lawyer in Varanasi, who would inform the trial court formally.