Challenge of Allahabad HC’s decision on Krishna Janmabhoomi, Supreme Court rejected the petition
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition challenging the Allahabad High Court’s decision. In this, the court had rejected a PIL seeking direction to the UP government to acquire the Krishna Janmabhoomi birthplace in Mathura and hand it over to Hindus for worship. Dismissing the appeal against the Allahabad High Court’s October 11, 2023 verdict, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Dutta said, ‘The issue is already pending before the High Court. There should not be more than one trial.”
Counsel for petitioner Mehak Maheshwari said that the High Court had also dismissed the PIL on the grounds of pendency of the case. The bench said that the petitioner had filed a PIL and hence it was dismissed by the High Court. “We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgment and hence the petition is dismissed,” the bench said in the order. We clarify that the dismissal of the petition is not to comment on the rights of the parties to challenge any law nor to stop them from challenging any law.
Maheshwari had said in his PIL that he is a devout Hindu and prays that his fundamental right to worship be protected. In the PIL filed in the High Court, he had said that the actual place of Krishna Janmabhoomi birthplace should be acquired by the state government and handed over to the Hindus to worship Lord Krishna present in the Krishna birthplace. Presently there is Shahi Idgah Mosque at the actual place of Krishna’s birthplace.
