In a massive ruling, The Supreme Court has restrained all the courts in the country from entertaining and passing any effective interim or final orders on any lawsuits seeking reliefs including survey of religious places under the 1991 law.
As per PTI report, The direction of a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan came on a batch of pleas and cross pleas relating to the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991.
The 1991 law prohibits conversion of any place of worship and provides for the maintenance of the religious character of any place of worship as it existed on August 15, 1947.
Notably, the bench said no fresh suit would either be filed or registered till its further orders and in the pending cases, the courts would refrain from any ‘effective interim or final order’ till its further orders.
“We are examining the vires, contours and the ambit of 1991 Act,” the bench said, observing it would be appropriate to ask all other courts to ‘stay off their hands’.
