Gyanvapi Case: The go well with seeks the restoration of an historic temple
Allahabad:
In an important judgment within the Gyanvapi case, the Allahabad Excessive Court docket right this moment rejected all petitions by the mosque committee difficult civil fits that search restoration of a temple on the mosque website. The excessive courtroom requested the Varanasi courtroom to finish listening to in one among these civil fits, filed in 1991, inside six months.
The case pertains to Gyanvapi mosque, situated subsequent to the enduring Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi. The excessive courtroom was listening to 5 petitions – three from the Gyanvapi mosque committee and two from Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board. Three of those petitions challenged the maintainability of a go well with filed earlier than the Varanasi courtroom in 1991.
The 1991 go well with, filed earlier than the Varanasi courtroom on behalf of deity Adi Vishveswar Virajman, had sought management of the disputed premises and permission for worship there. Difficult this go well with, the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee and UP Sunni Central Waqf Board had argued that it’s not maintainable below the Locations of Worship Act (Particular Provisions) Act of 1991, which restricts altering the character of a spiritual locations because it existed on August 15, 1947.
The petitioners of the 1991 go well with had argued that Gyanvapi dispute pre-dated Independence and won’t come below the Locations of Worship Act.
Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal right this moment mentioned the 1991 go well with is maintainable and never barred by the Locations of Spiritual Worship Act, 1991. Justice Agarwal had on December 8 reserved his judgment after listening to the counsels of the petitioners and the respondent.
The courtroom right this moment mentioned the mosque compound can have both a Muslim character or a Hindu character and this can’t be determined on the stage of framing points. ”The go well with impacts two main communities of the nation… We direct the trial courtroom to expeditiously resolve the go well with in 6 months,” the courtroom mentioned.
The go well with pending earlier than the Varanasi courtroom seeks the restoration of an historic temple on the disputed website the place the mosque is now situated. It argues that the mosque is a part of the temple.