Plea seeking case against Akhilesh, Owaisi: Varanasi court defers hearing to Dec 22
Senior advocate Harishankar Pandey, who hails from Varanasi, had filed the plea on May 23 earlier this year
Additional chief judicial magistrate-V Ujjwal Upadhyaya on Monday deferred the hearing of the petition seeking filing of a case against Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of the people of Kashi by making controversial remarks regarding the Shivling-like structure found in Gyanvapi mosque compound during a court-ordered survey on May 16 this year to December 22.
The lawyers aware of the matter said the hearing was deferred following the full day condolence announced after the death of a senior lawyer. Senior advocate Harishankar Pandey, who hails from Varanasi, had filed the plea on May 23 earlier this year. The ACJM-V had on November 16 admitted the plea.
The SP chief, while speaking to the media in Ayodhya after the Shivling-like structure was found in the Gyanvapi mosque compound, had said, “In our Hinduism, place a stone anywhere, install a red flag there, under a peepal tree, and it becomes a temple.”
After the petitioner’s claim of the finding of a Shivling-like structure in Gyanvapi mosque, the AIMIM chief had said that the structure was not a Shivling but a fountain.
