Sambhal Dispute: SC Gives Two Weeks to Mosque Committee to Respond on UP's Status Report

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted two-week time to the Committee of Management, Shahi Jama Masjid, Sambhal, to file its response on a status report of Uttar Pradesh authorities which said the disputed well is located outside the mosque.

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A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar asked the committee to file an affidavit while hearing an application filed by it to ensure that status quo is maintained with respect to the private well situated near the stairs/entrance of the mosque.

Additional Solicitor General KM Natraj, appearing for the Uttar Pradesh government and authorities, told the bench that the well was situated after a police post (chowki), totally outside the mosque.

Senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, appearing for the mosque committee, said the president of the mosque committee, Zafar Ali, was in jail.

The bench said, "Take a 'mulaqat' (meeting with an inmate in jail) and do it. Somebody else can also file the response. Please do it in two weeks only."