Muhammad Shafi, the National Vice President of SDPI, expressed deep dismay about the judiciary, which is supposed to go by the Constitution standing by myths and beliefs of a particular community in arriving at decisions. Despite the categorical proclamation in the Places of Worship Act 1991 that the status quo as of 15th August 1947 will be maintained in any dispute regarding the ownership of any place of worship in the country, Hon’ble courts are entertaining claims on centuries-old mosques and monuments during the Mughal era, ignoring this Act. Shafi was referring to the court-ordered survey in the 16th Century Juma Masjid at Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. There is a well-planned agenda to seize the Mughal-era masjids and monuments and convert them into Hindu places of worship. The significant part of that plan is to make all the seizures appear to be legitimate. It is the role of the courts in this drama. The courts seem to be waiting for a petition from somebody to issue orders to survey the centuries-old mosques and monuments. Once such an order is obtained everything afterwards will be easy to follow. The assignment of moving the courts in these cases is entrusted to advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain and his father. It was his father who started the episode of claims on Masjids and monuments, with the claim on Babri Masjid, it was himself who was behind the Gyan Vyapi Masjid and now the Sambhal Juma Masjid, Taj Mahal, Qutub Minar, etc. Jain is said to have filed around 118 such cases on the masjids. Shafi expressed concern that such court orders might harm the trust of the common people in the impartiality of the judiciary.