JUDGMENT :

This is a defendant’s Civil Revision under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, arising out of an order of Dr. Ajaya Krishna Vishvesha, the District Judge of Varanasi, rejecting an application by the defendant-revisionist under Order VII Rule 11 CPC in Original Suit No.18 of 2022.

The reliefs claimed in the Suit

2. The five plaintiff-respondents to this revision have instituted Original Suit No.18 of 2022 against the State of Uttar Pradesh, represented by the Chief Secretary, the District Magistrate, Varanasi, the Commissioner of Police, Varanasi, the Committee of Management, Anjuman Intezamia Masajid, Varanasi through its Secretary, representing the Gyanvapi Mosque and the Board of Trustees, Sri Kashi Vishwanath Temple through the Chief Executive Officer/Secretary of the Board, seeking reliefs of declaration, permanent prohibitory injunction and mandatory injunction, which can best be understood by a reproduction of these verbatim:

"a) Decree the suit for declaration declaring that Plaintiffs are entitled to have Darshan, Pooja and perform all the rituals of Maa Srinigar Gauri, Lord Ganesha, Lord Hanuman and other visible and invisible deities within old temple