HC tells Mathura trial court to decide on 2 pleas in 4 months

PRAYAGRAJ/AGRA: The Allahabad high court on Thursday directed a court in Mathura to decide within four months on the two applications filed on behalf of Bhagwan Shri Krishna Virajman in connection with the Krishna Janmabhoomi issue.

The two applications include a temporary injunction (TI) application, as well as the application for joining the trial of all the pending cases related to the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi-shahi Idgah Masjid dispute. Justice Salil Kumar Rai passed the order while disposing of a petition filed by Manish Yadav on behalf of Bhagwan Shri

Krishna Virajman.

During the trial, advocate Rama Nand Gupta argued that the petitioner’s application for a temporary injunction restraining members and persons related to UP Sunni Central Waqf Board from entering 13 acres of land of Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura was not being decided by the trial court i.e. the civil judge (senior division) Mathura.

The court, while allowing the application, observed, “The Civil Judge (Senior Division), Mathura is directed to decide the aforesaid applications expeditiously, preferably within a period of four months from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before him and after giving an opportunity of hearing to the affected parties, in case there is no legal impediment in deciding the... applications.” “It is clarified that Court has not expressed any opinion either regarding the maintainability of the case or the merits of claim made by the petitioner.”

Since September 2020, nine cases have been filed in connection with the dispute in courts of Mathura but according to counsel and secretary of the Shahi Eidgah Mosque management committee, summons were received by them in six cases that were being contested.

A suit was filed on December 23 last year on behalf of deity Bhagwan Keshav Dev (Lord Krishna) seeking removal of the Eidgah and transfer of 13.37-acre land to the deity.