New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- The Supreme Court expressed displeasure on Monday over filing of several pleas on the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act.

The Supreme Court said a three-judge bench will hear in April the pending post-notice petitions related to the 1991 law, news agency PTI reported. The law mandates the religious character of a place to be maintained as it existed on August 15, 1947.

The Supreme Court, however, granted liberty to the petitioners like Samajwadi Party leader and Kairana MP Iqra Choudhary, who filed the pleas recently and notices have not been issued on them, to file applications for intervention in pending ones by citing new legal grounds.

Dismissing fresh petitions, on which notices were not issued yet, a...