The Supreme Court on Monday managed a balancing act, allowing a chosen Hindu priest to continue to offer worship inside the cellar or tehkhana in the Gyanvapi premises while Muslims used the mosque and the surrounding courtyard for performing namaaz.
A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud found it “appropriate” to order status quo in order to “enable both communities to offer religious worship”.
“This way namaaz is offered on the premises of the mosque. The tehkhana is safeguarded. The arrangement would be maintained between now and the trial,” Chief Justice Chandrachud remarked orally.
