Tensions remain high in Sambhal as authorities intensify security and the Supreme Court hears a plea challenging the survey of Jama Masjid.

The Supreme Court will hear today a petition filed by the Sambhal Jama Masjid Committee challenging an order passed by a trial court for the survey of the mosque by an Advocate Commissioner in

On November 19, a civil court in Sambhal had directed an advocate commissioner to conduct a survey of the mosque following a plea by Advocate Hari Shankar Jain and seven others.

Security has increased around Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, before Friday prayers due to recent tensions. The RAF and drones are deployed to maintain order after violence during ASI's examination of the mosque.

The Supreme Court will hear on Friday, a petition filed by the Sambhal Shahi Jama Masjid Committee, challenging the survey of Shahi Jama Masjid at Chandausi. The matter will be heard by the Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar.

The petition contends that the survey at Sambhal's Jama Masjid, ordered by a civil judge, was conducted hastily and could lead to communal tensions, jeopardizing the secular fabric of the country.

The Supreme Court is set to hear a plea challenging the November 19 order of a district court, which directed a survey of the Mughal-era mosque in Sambhal. "The hot haste in which the survey was allowed and conducted all within a day and suddenly another survey was conducted with a notice of barely six hours has given rise to widespread communal tensions and threatens the secular and democratic fabric of the nation,

UP governor Anandiben Patel has constituted a 3-member judicial inquiry commission to probe the stone-pelting incident in Sambhal.

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