Srinagar :- Peoples Democratic Front ( PDF) Chairman Hakeem Muhammad Yaseen has welcomed the Supreme Court’s directive restraining courts from enter training fresh law suits and passing any effective interim or final orders in pending ones , seeking to reclaim religious places, especially mosques and dargahs. He said the direction of a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna , justices Sanjay Kumar and K V Viswanathan stalling proceedings in about 18 lawsuits filed by various Hindu parties seeking survey to ascertain original religious character of 10 mosques including Gyanvapi at Varanasi, Shahi Idgah Masjid at Mathura , Shahi Jama Masjid at Sambhal and Dargah sharief Ajmeer has brought much-needed relief to the people especially to the minorities .
In a statement issued here on Saturday Yaseen while welcoming the Supreme Court’s directive restraining courts from enter training fresh law suits and has said that India is a great secular country where judiciary has a pivotal role to preserve its high traditions of communal harmony and cultural heritage. He said the recent Supreme Court’s directives on the religious places was a good decision in this direction and has come at an appropriate time when anti peace forces were hell bend to great communal tensions in the country He said the recent Supreme court decision is a landmark intervention to restore people’s faith on judiciary and rule of law . He said the Supreme Court intervention has brought much needed relief among the minority communities. He exuded confidence that the supreme court ruling would go a long way to promote peace and communal harmony in the country. He said all Indians, in the larger interests of the Nation, should mutually respect their religion and religious places including temples, mosques, gurdwaras, churches and Imambaras above political affiliations. He urged the need to identify and isolate elements involved in spreading hate and anarchy among the communities by instigating religious emotions. He said unity in diversity was the hallmark of great Indian heritage and its high secular traditions which needed to be preserved and promoted by the civil society, intelligentsia and judiciary as an act of faith.
