THE Allahabad High Court on Tuesday heard both the Hindu and Muslim sides on the Gyanvapi mosque committee’s appeal challenging the Varanasi district court order allowing Hindu prayers in a cellar of the mosque. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agrawal said the hearing would continue on Wednesday. The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, which looks after the affairs of the mosque in Varanasi adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple, had filed the plea on Friday

last challenging the Varanasi court order allowing prayers in the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque. In the middle of the hearing Tuesday as the court hour was over, the judge said the hearing would resume at 10 am on Wednesday.

The Allahabad HC had on Friday not given any immediate relief to the Gyanvapi Masjid committee which had challenged the Varanasi district court order.