Security deployment continued for the sixth consecutive day in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh

Sambhal: Amid tensions over the Shahi Jama Masjid Survey, the security deployment in the Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh continued for the sixth day in a row on Saturday. A Samajwadi Party (SP) group is anticipated to go to Sambhal today, according to party sources.

Four people were killed and several others, including authorities and residents, were wounded in the November 24 stones-throwing episode that became violent over the survey team.

A three-member Judicial Inquiry Commission, led by Justice Devendra Kumar Arora (retired), of the Allahabad High Court, has been established by UP Governor Anandiben Patel to look into the stone-pelting incident in Sambhal.

The Supreme Court ordered the trial court in Sambhal to refrain from pursuing the lawsuit against the Jama Masjid until the Masjid Committee’s plea against the survey decision was listed in the High Court earlier on Friday. The court also instructed Uttar Pradesh to maintain “harmony and peace” in Sambhal.
The report of the lawyer commissioner who surveyed the mosque shall be preserved in a sealed cover and not unsealed in the interim, according to a bench consisting of Justice Sanjay Kumar and Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna.

“We must preserve harmony and peace. Nothing is what we wish to happen. “We must be completely impartial and make sure that nothing improper is done,” the bench said at the beginning.

The Committee of Management of Jama Masjid in Sambhal was appealing the local court’s November 19 ruling for the mosque survey to the highest court.

When the case came up for hearing, the bench informed senior counsel Huzefa Ahmadi, who was representing the mosque committee, that rather than going straight to the Supreme Court, they would need to go to the High Court to contest the trial court’s decision for the survey.

The court commissioner was instructed by the senior division civil judge on November 19 to conduct an inspection of the mosque and submit the results to the court.

The Masjid Committee filed a direct appeal with the highest court, claiming an “extraordinary situation.”

The Supreme Court has the authority to decide any subject immediately under Section 136 of the Constitution, which is where the petition was submitted.

Since the local court ordered an inspection of the mosque on November 19, tensions have been building in Sambhal. Four individuals were killed in clashes between protesters and police over the court-ordered assessment of the Jama Masjid.

The study was conducted in response to a petition that was filed in the local court by certain individuals who claimed that the mosque’s location was formerly a Harihar temple.