The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow the plea of a Ramlila organizing committee challenging Allahabad High Court's ex-parte stay of ongoing Ramlila celebrations at a school ground in Uttar Pradesh.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and N Kotiswar Singh today allowed urgent listing of the case, upon a mentioning. The counsel who mentioned the case on behalf of the petitioner (Ramlila organizing committee) submitted that the High Court passed the ex-parte order without hearing it.

"In a PIL, it has stayed the ongoing Ramlila proceedings...10 days we have organized it, day before the order was passed...ongoing Ramlila proceedings have been stayed by the High Court at the behest of the PIL petitioner without impleading us or hearing us, on the ground that Ramlila is being organi

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