Mathura : A Mathura court on Friday admitted an appeal against an order that dismissed a plea seeking removal of a 17th-century mosque built near the Lord Krishna temple in the city.
Last month, a group of people filed a suit in the court of the senior division civil judge in Mathura, claiming the mosque was built at Lord Krishna’s birthplace, within the 13.37-acre complex of the Katra Keshav Dev temple.
When the senior division civil judge dismissed their plea on September 30, they appealed in the district court on October 12 terming the order “erroneous and against facts”.
After summoning the record of the lower court, the district court admitted the appeal on Friday.
“Admit appeal. Issue notice to opposite parties to appear in the court on November 18,” District and Sessions Judge Sadhana Thakur said.
“Ultimately the district judge has accepted our point. We have been fighting for justice for the last one month,” counsel for the petitioners Vishnu Shankar Jain told reporters.
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