The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Varanasi court to halt its proceedings in the Gyanvapi mosque suit until the apex court took up the case on Friday.
A Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud agreed to adjourn the case till 3 p.m. on Friday as the senior lawyer briefed by one of the parties, the five Hindu women who are plaintiffs in the suit filed before the trial court in Varanasi and are respondents before the Supreme Court in the petition filed by the mosque’s caretakers against the survey of the mosque premises, was personally indisposed due to an illness.
In a reply filed in the court later through the online service, the Hindu women, claimed a portion of the temple was demolished on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in the late 1600s.
