[Day 3] District Judge Varanasi to resume hearing the application by the Muslim party challenging the maintainability of the suit filed by Hindus seeking worship rights inside #GyanvapiMosque as "barred by Places of Worship Act 1991" #Varanasi#KashiVishwanathTemple
With half an hour to go for the hearing before District Judge Varanasi to resume, security has been beefed up #GyanvapiMosque
Amid loud chants of "Har Har Mahadev", Advocate Hari Shankar Jain for the Hindu party enters the courtroom of District Judge, Varanasi
Advocate Mohammad Tauheed for Muslim side enters the court of District Judge, Varanasi. Tauheed to request court that the video and photo of the #GyanvapiSurvey not to be given to the Media #GyanvapiMosque
Court officials allow Advocate Ranjana Agnihotri inside court. 47 lawyers are permitted to be present for the hearing
Proceedings before District Judge Varanasi begins #GyanvapiMosque
Muslim side argues: This suit is in complete violation of the Places of Worship Act, 1991. #GyanvapiMosque
Muslim side reads 1937 case of Deen Mohammad Vs State Secretary where the court had decided on the basis of oral testimony and documents that this entire compound (Gyanvapi mosque complex) belongs to the Muslim Waqf and Muslims have the right to offer namaz in it #GyanvapiMosque
Hearing concludes for the day. Muslim side is rebutting para by para submissions of Hindu side. Now they are on Para 33 out of 51 total Paras.
#SupremeCourt hears appeal by Chhattisgarh Govt against HC order granting #bail to suspended Indian Police Service (IPS) officer GP Singh who was arrested in connection with a disproportionate assets case
Justice Gavai: Sr Adv Mukul Rohatgi states that Singh has indulged in tampering of evidence and HC has ignored it. This present application is nothing but a totally unwarranted exercise by the state
Justice Gavai: While considering bail HC does not have business to deal with status of applicant and it is about the individual right. In Disproportionate assets case most is documentary evidence where there is no chance of tampering.
#SupremeCourt hears the plea by State of Andhra Pradesh against an order of the National Green Tribunal which halted the construction works at #Rushikonda Hills in Visakhapattanam as part of a tourism project
Dr AM Singhvi, Sr Adv: This is a prestigious project being constructed by State of AP. Only on the basis of a letter NGT constitutes a committee and that committee ex parte looks into it and says there is no environmental degradation or violation
Singhvi: Please see the committee report that there was no violation. Again a new committee was constituted to see if CRZ permissions were intact. This is for the resort which is ours which we are only demolishing and building again.
#SupremeCourt hears the appeal against Delhi HC order which aside the Pharmacy Council of India's (PCI) 2019 decision of imposing a moratorium on opening of new pharmacy colleges in India for a period of five years beginning from the academic year 2020-2021
Justice BR Gavai: Nowadays education is a industry and there are only lot of business houses. Looking at the cost of medical education students were required to go to..
Justice Hima Kohli: Ukraine,
Justice Gavai: yes Ukraine
SG Tushar Mehta: This is pharmacy milords
Justice Kohli: Processing will continue but don't do anything final..
SG: There are 2,500 colleges. This was brought in due to mushrooming colleges being run like shopping centres
Supreme Court to have fully physical hearing today owing to the internet server being down due to yesterday's maelstrom. Broadcast on Supreme Court app and via links to not work for today #PhysicalHearing#SupremeCourt
An entire NIC team is working round the clock to restore internet services considering a number of counsels are appearing via video conferencing #supremecourt#maelstrom
As per sources, the NIC was given a deadline of 10 am to restore #internet services in the #SupremeCourt
Varanasi District Magistrate Court hears an urgent application from Hindu side seeking the handover of the #GyanvapiSurvey report including photos and videos
Adv Hari Shankar Jain: Media ko jawab dena padhta hai. Report toh sab padh chuke hai , koi secret nahi hai
Adv Jain: (Everyone has read the report. Nothing is a secret. We have to answer to media also)
District Judge AK Vishvesha : report sirf bhai chara ke liye gupt hai, bhai chara bana rahe, shanti rahe (#GyanvapiSurvey report is under wraps for communal harmony. Lets maintain it)
Delhi High Court will continue to hear today the arguments in the appeal of former JNU student Umar Khalid challenging the lower court's order denying him bail in the Delhi Riots larger conspiracy case. #DelhiHighCourt#UmarKhalid#DelhiRiots#UAPA
Khalid has been charged with criminal conspiracy and other provisions of the IPC along with the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). He has been in jail since October 2020. #DelhiHighCourt#UmarKhalid#DelhiRiots#UAPA
The appeal will be heard by a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar.
Matter is likely to be take up at 2:30pm.
Read the development in the previous hearing here: barandbench.com/news/litigatio…