Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka on Friday reserved its judgment on the maintainability of a suit pending before a court in Mangaluru, seeking a survey of a mosque. The suit is before the III Additional Civil Court in Mangaluru and is regarding the Assayed Abdullahi Madani mosque in Malali, Thenka Ulipady village, near Mangaluru. Architecture resembling a temple was allegedly found during the renovation of the mosque.
T A Dhananjaya and B A Manoj Kumar filed a suit seeking a survey of the mosque to verify if part of it is a temple. The local court in Mangaluru was hearing arguments about whether such a suit was maintainable. Meanwhile, the same persons approached the High Court requesting that the lower court should not decide on the maintainability of the suit, but appoint a commissioner to conduct the survey.