New Delhi

All India Muslim Personal Law Board said that the High Court’s decision of rejecting a petition that sought to stay the order of the District Court permitting Hindus to perform Puja in a portion of the Gyanvapi mosque at Benaras, Uttar Pradesh has come as a big shock to the Muslims and Seculars."

Arshad Madani, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, said on behalf of the Muslim Organisations and the All India Muslim personal law board,"We will move Supreme Court against Gyanvapi decision and meet President Droupadi Murmu. There is a separate law for the majority in the courts. Same decision was taken in Ram temple also."

Speaking about the district Court and High Court's order Madani remarked, "There is a big question mark on India's judicial system."

The leaders spoke to the media after a meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board was held at the office of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind where the leaders discussed the future strategy against the district court's order granting permission to the Hindus to worship in the basement of Gyanvapi Masjid.

Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, Chairman of the Personal Law Board, while condemning the officials, said that the iron grill under the Gyanvapi Mosque and the idols being placed there overnight to start the worship very quickly shows that the administration is with the plaintiff while the Court has given 7 days to the administration for the same work."

The meeting wanted the mosque committee to exercise its right to appeal against the order.

On January 17, the District court had given the basement under the control of the district administration.

Rahmani alleged that the report of the Archeological Survey of India was also manipulated by the Hindu side.

Maulana Arshad Madani  said, "We expected justice from the Supreme Court, but when the Babri Masjid verdict came, we were disappointed. He however said yet, "we only believe in the Supreme Court."

The problem is not limited to Jnanawapi Masjid, but the way baseless claims are constantly being made on Mathura's Shahi Idgah, Delhi's Sunhri, and waqf properties spread across the country.

He said the Supreme Court has not taken cognizance of the 1991 law related to places of worship and it is a cause of concern for Muslims.

The Allahabad High Court refused to stay order of the dfistrict Court on the Puja but granted time until February 6 for the Masjid Intezamia Committee of Gyanvapi mosque to amend its pleadings to include a challenge to a January 17 order consequent to which the January 31 order was passed.

The next hearing will now be held on February 6.

The bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Aggarwal said that the mosque side should first challenge the order of January 17, 2024. By this order, District Magistrate Varanasi was appointed as the receiver, and after that, the DM took possession of the Gyanvapi premises on January 23.