NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine a plea of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi seeking the effective implementation of the 1991 places of worship law, which asks to maintain the religious character of a place as it existed on August 15, 1947.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar ordered Owaisi’s fresh plea to be tagged with the pending cases on the issue and all matters, along with his plea, would be heard on February 17.
At the outset, advocate Nizam Pasha, appearing for Owaisi, the president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), said that the court is seized of various pleas on the issue and the fresh one may be tagged with them as well.