Supreme Court
Petitions challenging validity of Places of Worship Act, 1991: SC asks Centre to file reply in 2 weeks
New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court granted the Centre two weeks time to respond and make its stand clear before it to a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the 1991 Places of Worship Act.
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Uday Umesh Lalit, asked the Central government to file its reply within two weeks.
"You (Centre) file your reply to the petitions. We will hear the case after that," CJI Lalit said and fixed the matter for further hearing to Nov 14.
The top court asked the Centre to file its reply, after hearing a batch of petitions, including that of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
The Supreme Court asked the Centre to file its reply in the case, as Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, senior law officer representing the Union government, told the top court that given the sensitivity of the case and the parameters involved in it, we need time.
The Supreme Court, which was hearing the batch of petitions challenging the validity of the 1991 Places of Worship Act, Wednesday, after asking the Centre to make its stand clear on the issue, fixed the matter for further hearing to Nov 14.
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