After Huge Step For Hindu Petitioners, Gyanvapi Listening to Immediately: 10 Factors

1. In its order of September 12, the Varanasi court docket mentioned the petitioners weren’t asking to “convert” the mosque right into a temple however a proper to “worship” on the “disputed” property all 12 months spherical. Below a regulation made in 1991, locations of worship needs to be allowed to exist as they had been on August 15, 1947. The Babri Masjid case was the exception.

2. A problem by Muslim petitioners, primarily the mosque directors, who wished the petition thrown out, was rejected by the choose, who mentioned the petition has no benefit.

3. The Muslim petitioners have now filed an software in search of 8 weeks to organize for the case earlier than it’s heard additional. The legal professionals for the Hindu ladies say they are going to ask for a contemporary survey on the mosque by the Archaeological Survey of India.

4. Earlier this 12 months, a decrease court docket in Varanasi had ordered the filming of the centuries-old mosque based mostly on the petition of the ladies.

5. The videography report, controversially leaked by the Hindu petitioners, claimed a “Shivling” or relic of Lord Shiva had been present in a pond inside the mosque complicated used for “Wazoo” or purification rituals earlier than Muslim prayers.

6. The filming contained in the mosque was challenged within the Supreme Court docket by the Gyanvapi mosque committee, which mentioned the transfer violates the 1991 regulation (Locations of Worship Act).

7. In Might, the Supreme Court docket assigned the case to the town’s most senior choose, referring to the “complexity and sensitivity” of the dispute that it mentioned requires skilled dealing with.

8. The Gyanvapi mosque positioned in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency (Varanasi), is among the a number of mosques that Hindu hardliners consider had been constructed on the ruins of temples.

9. The Gyanvapi case was one of many three temple-mosque rows, in addition to Ayodhya and Mathura, which the BJP raised within the Eighties and 90s, gaining nationwide prominence.

10. The day of the Varanasi court docket handed the order accepting the maintainability of the Hindu ladies’s petition, a contemporary case was filed in Mathura in search of the shifting of Meena Masjid. It provides to calls for for shifting of the Shahi Masjid Idgah, which petitioners say is constructed over the birthplace of Lord Krishna inside the 13-acre Katra Keshav Deo temple complicated.

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