A three-judge bench of the Apex Court, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said it will decide a date as to when the matter would be heard in January 2019.
The case relates to observation made in a 1994 judgment of the SC in the Ismail Faruqui case that "a mosque is not an essential part of the practice of the religion of Islam and 'namaz' [prayer] by Muslims can be offered anywhere, even in open".