The apex court on Tuesday explained that the request passed by the Civil Judge of Senior Division at Varanasi to safeguard where a “shiv ling” was professed to have been found during the review of the Gyanvapi mosque won’t confine the right of Muslims to get to the mosque to offer namaz and to perform religious activities.

The Court gave notice on the petition recorded by the Masjid committee testing the overview requested by the Varanasi court and saved the matter for Thursday (May 19).

A seat involving Judges DY Chandrachud and PS Narasimha coordinated with the DM worried to guarantee that the spot inside the Mosque where ‘Shiv Ling’ is expressed to have been found is safeguarded. Notwithstanding, it requested that this shouldn’t limit the right of Muslims to offer Namaz and religious activities.

To block any question on the importance and content of the order passed by the trial court, the activity and ambit of the request dated 16 May 2022 will stand confined to the degree that the DM of Varanasi will guarantee that the region where the Shivalinga is expressed to have been found, as demonstrated in the request, will be properly safeguarded.

The above bearing will not in any way limit or hinder the entrance of Muslims to the mosque or the utilization of the Mosque to perform Namaz and strict observances.

The bench passed this explanation subsequent to seeing that the employable piece of the Varanasi Court’s organization had expressed that the application recorded by the offended party has been permitted, albeit the particular heading gave by it was to seal the spot and to safeguard the fixed spot and to confine the section of individuals into the fixed spot. Notwithstanding, the petition filed by the offended party had looked for a few reliefs, for example, to limit the quantity of Muslims entering the mosque for offering namaz and to preclude them from performing “wazu” (bathing process).

“We have rejected the three reliefs looked for in the petition. We have safeguarded where the shiv ling was found. Furthermore, we have explained that this won’t confine the privileges of Muslims”.