The Supreme Court will hear today a petition filed by the Sambhal Jama Masjid Committee challenging an order passed by a trial court for the survey of the mosque by an Advocate Commissioner in

Ahmadi contended that 10 suits were pending across the length and breadth of the country. The modus operandi was that on the first day only, the surveyor was appointed, he added. Ahmadi sought a stay on the Sambhal court order on the grounds that the trial court order had the potential to cause ‘great mischief’.

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The petition was moved by the Management Committee of the Mughal-era mosque, which Hindus claim was built by destroying a Hindu temple.

The Supreme Court is set to hear on Friday a plea filed by the Sambhal Shahi Jama Masjid Committee seeking a stay on a district court-ordered survey of the mosque to verify if the disputed structure was originally the Harihar temple.

On November 19, a civil court in Sambhal had directed an advocate commissioner to conduct a survey of the mosque following a plea by Advocate Hari Shankar Jain and seven others.

The petition contends that the survey at Sambhal's Jama Masjid, ordered by a civil judge, was conducted hastily and could lead to communal tensions, jeopardizing the secular fabric of the country.

The Supreme Court is set to hear a plea challenging the November 19 order of a district court, which directed a survey of the Mughal-era mosque in Sambhal. "The hot haste in which the survey was allowed and conducted all within a day and suddenly another survey was conducted with a notice of barely six hours has given rise to widespread communal tensions and threatens the secular and democratic fabric of the nation,

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