Petitioners fined Rs 250 for in search of elimination of Shahi Idgah mosque close to Mathura’s Krishna temple
By PTI
MATHURA (UTTAR PRADESH): A Mathura court docket listening to a plea for shifting the Shahi Idgah mosque from close to the Lord Krishna’s Katra Keshav Dev temple right here, has imposed a positive of Rs 250 on its petitioners for in search of an adjournment of the continuing.
Civil Judge (Senior Division) Jyoti Singh imposed the positive on Friday, ADGC Civil Sanjai Gaur stated on Saturday. The choose imposed the positive as petitioners’ counsel Mahendra Pratap Singh sought a deferment on listening to of arguments on the maintainability of the plea.
Singh, who has moved the court docket on behalf of the deity as its “next friend” for elimination of the mosque, had first sought adjudication of his 5 functions associated to the swimsuit for the elimination of the mosque.
Besides advocate Singh, who has filed the plea, additionally claiming to be a descendant of “Brijwasi” Lord Krishna, there are 4 different petitioners, together with the deity, Virajman Thakur Keshav Dev Ji Maharaj Katra Keshav Dev.
The three different 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 taken into account to be a juristic individual with all of the rights of a standard particular person, together with the fitting to sue and be sued, and a deity is represented in court docket by what is named its “next friend”. Explaining the implication of the court docket ruling, advocate Mahendra Pratap Singh stated the positive might not be deemed to be imposed on the deity however solely different petitioners, together with himself.
He, nonetheless, identified that in accordance with numerous Supreme Court rulings, simply as numerous deities are entitled to amass properties, they’re liable to pay taxes as properly. The joint plea was filed towards the secretary of the Shahi Idgah Masjid’s ‘intezamia’ (administration) committee, the president of the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board and the secretary of the Srikrishna Janmasthan Seva Sansthan.
It has been claimed within the swimsuit that the Shahi Idgah Masjid has been constructed on part of the 13.37-acre land of the Katra Keshav Dev temple. As the continuing started on Friday, advocate Tanveer Ahmad, showing for the mosque’s administration committee, sought the court docket to start listening to on the maintainability of the swimsuit.
Advocate Singh, nonetheless, sought deferment of arguments on the maintainability, contending that the court docket ought to first determine his eight different functions associated to the swimsuit. On a written request by Singh for the adjournment, the court docket did defer the listening to to April 19 however imposed a positive of Rs 250 on the petitioners.
