NEW DELHI: The Gynavapi mosque management committee on Monday spurned Supreme Court’s suggestion to challenge the evidentiary value of a Varanasi court commissioner’s report, which in May last year had made mention of a purported ‘Shivling’ in the mosque’s wuzu area during the trial of the suit filed by Hindus seeking worshipping rights inside the masjid.
A three-judge bench headed by CJI D Y Chandrachud told senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi that the mosque management committee could question the evidentiary value of the May 2022 report of the Varanasi court-appointed commissioner during the trial of the suit. “You can take all objections to the commissioner’s report during the trial,” CJI Chandrachud suggested. But Ahmadi said the very order of the Varanasi district judge appointing the court commissioner was illegal as it was an exercise to collect evidence to favour the plaintiffs. “The appointment itself was evidence collecting exercise,” he alleged.
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