Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (MS)

Bengaluru, Jun 25: The high court, which completed the inquiry on the petition objecting the maintainability of a suit that was filed in court of Mangaluru, reserved its judgement.

The one member bench of Justice Sachin Shankar Magadam held inquiry on the petition filed by T A Dhananjaya and B A Manoj Kumar.

The judicial bench said that the order of not taking out any fresh orders will continue even though the arguments over the issue was heard by the civil court.

Arguing for the Wakf board, counsel Jayakumar S Patil said that there is no need of commissioner’s report before deciding the authority limits of inquiring court. If the commissioner is nominated and the report arrives then if the verdict is contradictory to the report, then both the nomination of the commissioner and report will not have any validity. So let the maintainability of root suit be decided first.

Vivek Subbareddy, who presented the argument for the petitioners said that the history and archaeology of the building can be known only when spot inspection is done scientifically. It is not specified clearly in the law whether original suit should be given first priority or surveying of the land. Gyanvyapi mosque case applies here, he said.