Allahabad High Court upholds order to inspect Sambhal Mosque.

• Allahabad High Court upheld a lower court’s order to survey the disputed Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh.

• The mosque committee challenged the survey, which was ordered under a suit filed by Hindu plaintiffs.

• The mosque committee argued that the dispute had already been settled in 1877 and could not be adjudicated in the current suit.

• Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal ruled that the lower court had not committed any error, irregularity, or illegality in allowing the survey.

• The court noted that the mosque committee entered into an agreement in 1927 subjecting the structure to the Act of 1904, which does not reveal the ownership of the mosque committee.

• The court stated that the case was not about a conversion of place of worship or altering the religious character of the place of worship.

• The court stated that once the structure has been declared as a protected monument in 1920 and remained unchallenged, it cannot be protected under the Places of Worship Act of 1991.