The Allahabad High Court on Monday a petition filed by the Shahi Jama Masjid management committee against a trial court order from November that directed the appointment of an advocate commissioner to survey the premises of the mosque in Sambhal, Live Law reported.

The structure has been at the centre of a controversy since November 26, when violence broke out after Muslim groups objected to the court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid. Five persons in the clashes.

The trial court had ordered the survey on November 19 on a claiming that the mosque had been built in 1526 by Mughal ruler Babur on the site of a “centuries-old Shri Hari Har Temple dedicated to Lord Kalki”.

The proceedings in the case were in effect since November 29, when the Supreme Court directed the trial court to wait until the mosque committee’s petition was listed before the Allahabad High Court.

On December 12, the Supreme Court from passing orders, including survey directions, in pending lawsuits concerning the religious character of places of worship.

It also said that no new suits can be registered in any court across the country until further orders while it hears a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the 1991 Places of...