Petitioners seeking removal of mosque from near Mathura temple fined Rs 250
India Today
Civil Judge (Senior Division) Jyoti Singh imposed a fine of Rs 250 on petitioners for seeking an adjournment of the proceeding.
A Mathura court hearing a plea for shifting the Shahi Idgah mosque from near the Lord Krishna’s Katra Keshav Dev temple here, has imposed a fine of Rs 250 on its petitioners for seeking an adjournment of the proceeding.
Civil Judge (Senior Division) Jyoti Singh imposed the fine on Friday, ADGC Civil Sanjai Gaur said on Saturday.
The judge imposed the fine as petitioners' counsel Mahendra Pratap Singh sought a deferment on hearing of arguments on the maintainability of the plea.
Singh, who has moved the court on behalf of the deity as its “next friend” for removal of the mosque, had first sought adjudication of his five applications related to the suit for the removal of the mosque.
Besides advocate Singh, who has filed the plea, also claiming to be a descendant of “Brijwasi” Lord Krishna, there are four other petitioners, including the deity, Virajman Thakur Keshav Dev Ji Maharaj Katra Keshav Dev.
The three other petitioners are advocate Rajendra Maheshwari of Jagannathpuri, Mathura, the United Hindu Front founder Jay Bhagwan Goyal, a Delhi resident and Vrindavan’s Dharm Raksha Sangh president Saurabh Gaur.
A deity is considered to be a juristic person with all the rights of a normal individual, including the right to sue and be sued, and a deity is represented in court by what is known as its “next friend”.
