The split between the Hindu plaintiffs and lawyers representing them in the Gyanvapi mosque-Kashi Vishwanath temple civil dispute has only grown since it appeared first in May this year, with plaintiff number 1, Rakhi Singh, on Tuesday approaching the district court in Varanasi with a prayer to essentially separate her suit from the others’.
This, even as the remaining four plaintiffs (Manju Vyas, Sita Sahu, Rekha Pathak, and Lakshmi Devi) and their lawyers started questioning the bona fide of Ms. Singh, who is being legally represented in court by her uncle Jitender Singh Visen, the chief of the Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh (VVSS).
In the application filed on Tuesday, Mr. Singh has submitted that advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, whose team is representing the four other plaintiffs in the case, had a conflict of interest in the suit. Mr. Singh said: “He is a standing counsel of the Uttar Pradesh government in the Supreme Court and the suit has the U.P. government as one of the defendants.”
