INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
trial of the suit filed by Hindus seeking worshipping rights inside the masjid.A three-judge bench headed by CJI D Y Chandrachud told senior
advocate Huzefa Ahmadi that the mosque management committee could question the evidentiary value of the May 2022 report of the Varanasi
court-appointed commissioner during the trial of the suit
But Ahmadi said the very order of the Varanasi district judge appointing the court commissioner was illegal as it was an exercise to collect
evidence to favour the plaintiffs
the high court from the district court), the court commissioner had to step inside the witness box for cross-examination
side terms as a fountain) and the maintainability of the suit given the bar under Places of Worship Act that froze the religious character
of buildings as on August 15, 1947
The bench posted the matter for further hearing on December 1.The SC on November 11 last year had indefinitely extended its May 20, 2022,
It had said there would be no restriction on Muslims from going to other areas of the mosque.
