Budaun,

28 May (HS): On Wednesday, the court set July 5 to hear the Neelkanth Mahadev

Temple-Shamsi Jama Masjid case. Suman

Tiwari, Civil Judge, Senior Division, was unable to hold the hearing due to the

absence of Shamsi Jama Masjid Intezamia Committee counsel Asrar Ahmed, who has

left for Haj. Judge Tiwari scheduled the

next hearing for July 5 and requested that both parties appear in court to

explain their arguments. Advocate Ved

Prakash Sahu of the Neelkanth Temple side stated that the case file has been

transferred from the fast track court to the court of Civil Judge, senior

division. In an earlier hearing on April 21, Civil Judge Pushpendra Chaudhary

of the Fast Track Court stated that he will check the case file before advancing.

Mukesh Patel, the then-convenor of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, claimed in

2022 that the Neelkanth Mahadev Temple existed on the site of the Jama Masjid

Shamsi mosque and requested permission to worship there. The claim is at the

root of the dispute.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi