Karnataka HC reserves judgement on mosque dispute in Mangaluru

Bengaluru : The High Court of Karnataka on Friday reserved its judgement on the maintainability of a suit pending before a court in Mangaluru, seeking survey of a mosque.
The suit is before the III Additional Civil Court in Mangaluru and is regarding the Assayed Abdullahi Madani mosque in Malali, Thenka Ulipady village, near Mangaluru.
Architecture resembling a temple was allegedly found during renovation of the mosque.
T A Dhananjaya and B A Manoj Kumar filed the suit seeking a survey of the mosque to verify if part of it is a temple.
The local court in Mangaluru was hearing arguments whether such a suit was maintainable.
Meanwhile, the same persons approached the High Court requesting that the lower court should not decide on the maintainability of the suit, but appoint a commissioner to conduct the survey.