Sambhal temple-mosque row: Court units August 21 to listen to case

A civil court docket in Chandausi on Tuesday (August 5, 2025) deferred to August 21 the continuing Shahi Jama Masjid-Harihar temple dispute owing to the strike of the native bar affiliation members.

The matter was listed for listening to earlier than civil decide (senior division) Aditya Singh.

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The Muslim facet has challenged the maintainability of the case within the Allahabad High Court, however on May 19, the High Court upheld the subordinate court docket’s order allowing a court-monitored survey and directed the trial court docket to proceed with the listening to.

Advocate Shri Gopal Sharma, showing for one facet, mentioned, “Due to the bar affiliation strike as we speak, the court docket has fastened August 21 as the subsequent date of listening to.”

Advocate Shakil Ahmad Warsi, who represents the opposite facet, advised PTI that because of the rains, the bar affiliation was on strike resulting from which the matter was posted for one more date.

The High Court’s earlier keep was vacated on May 19, and the paperwork associated to that order had been submitted within the trial court docket.

The dispute dates again to November 19 final yr, when Hindu petitioners, together with advocates Hari Shankar Jain and Vishnu Shankar Jain, filed a swimsuit within the Sambhal district court docket claiming the mosque was constructed over a pre-existing temple.

A court-ordered survey was carried out on the identical day (November 19), adopted by one other on November 24.

The second survey on November 24 led to vital unrest in Sambhal, ensuing within the loss of life of 4 individuals and accidents to 29 police personnel.

The police booked SP MP Ziaur Rahman Barq and mosque committee head Zafar Ali in relation to the violence apart from registering an FIR towards 2,750 unidentified individuals.