The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a 10-day stay of a railway demolition drive against constructions near the Krishna Janmabhoomi at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh.
A Bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose, Sanjay Kumar and S.V.N. Bhatti issued notice to the Centre and others in the case..
“Let there be status quo as regards the subject premises for a period of 10 days. List after one week,” the court ordered.
The lawyer, appearing for the petitioner Yakub Shah, told the court that 100 houses had been bulldozed.
“There are 70-80 houses left. Whole thing will become infructuous. They conducted the exercise on a day when Uttar Pradesh courts were closed,” he argued.
