New Delhi: The Allahabad high court on Wednesday (January 8) stayed the trial court proceedings in the Sambhal Jama Masjid matter till February 25.

A bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal passed the restraining order on a civil revision, filed by the managing committee of the Mughal-era mosque, against a Sambhal civil court’s November 19 order asking for a survey of the Muslim site by an advocate commissioner.

The Sambhal civil judge senior division had on November 19 ordered a hurried survey of the mosque after taking cognisance of an application by some Hindu activists. The activists had claimed that the Islamic religious site, built during the time of Mughal emperor Babur, was originally a prominent Hindu temple dedicated to the prophesied avatar of Vishnu, Kalki.

Mosque at Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh (1789). Pencil........

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