Allahabad High Court says Mulayam Singh Yadav’s decision to stop Hindu worship in Gyanvapi is illegal
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Allahabad High Court says Mulayam Singh Yadav’s decision to stop Hindu worship in Gyanvapi is illegal

Op India  

On Monday, 26th February, the Allahabad High Court stated that the order passed by Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Uttar Pradesh government to stop Hindu worship rituals in Vyas Ka Tehkhana in 1993 was illegal. The court dismissed the plea of Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee challenging the Varanasi District Court’s 31st January order allowing regular Puja at the Vyas Ka Tehkhana in the disputed structure of Gyanvapi. Excerpt from Allahabad High Court judgment In 1993, Assembly Elections took place in UP after Kalyan Singh government was dismissed following the demolition of illegal Babri structure, and Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Notably, on 1st February, the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee moved to the Supreme Court with their plea against the Varanasi District Court’s order.

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Gyanvapi, Sambhal & more: The mandir-masjid suits that will be impacted by SC order on Places of Worship Act
1 week, 4 days ago

Gyanvapi, Sambhal & more: The mandir-masjid suits that will be impacted by SC order on Places of Worship Act

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court has asked all courts to stop ordering surveys of contested religious places until further directions. Last year, upholding the maintainability of the suit filed by the five Hindu devotees, Varanasi’s Court of the District and Sessions Judge directed a survey by the Archaeological Survey of India. Notably, in May 2022, while hearing an appeal against the Varanasi …

'Implementation Of Places of Worship Act Could've Prevented Sambhal Incident': Muslim League Seeks Intervention In Supreme Court
1 week, 5 days ago

'Implementation Of Places of Worship Act Could've Prevented Sambhal Incident': Muslim League Seeks Intervention In Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Indian Union Muslim League and Lok Sabha MP ET Muhammed Basheer have filed an intervention application before the Supreme Court in the pleas challenging validity of the Places of Worship Act, 1991. It is further asserted that by maintaining the sanctity of places of worship as they existed in 1947, the Act plays a critical role in fostering unity, …

Exclusive: Gyanvapi mosque panel seeks intervention in pleas against 1991 Act
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Exclusive: Gyanvapi mosque panel seeks intervention in pleas against 1991 Act

India Today  

The committee managing the Gyanvapi Mosque has moved the Supreme Court seeking intervention in pleas challenging the validity of the Places of Worship Act, 1991. The Committee of Management Anjuman Intezamia Masjid, Varanasi, filed an intervention application in the court, stating that the mosque has been made the subject of multiple suits and the committee is therefore a crucial stakeholder …

SC refuses to stop Hindu prayers in Gyanvapi mosque cellar
8 months, 3 weeks ago

SC refuses to stop Hindu prayers in Gyanvapi mosque cellar

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stop the ongoing prayers by Hindu devotees within the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi even as it ordered a “status quo” on the religious observances by both Hindu and Muslim sides inside the mosque precincts. “Bearing in mind the fact that namaz is being offered by the Muslim community unhindered …

Gyanvapi Mosque Case : Supreme Court Orders Status Quo On Namaz In Mosque & Hindu Worship In 'Tehkhana' (Cellar)
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Gyanvapi Mosque Case : Supreme Court Orders Status Quo On Namaz In Mosque & Hindu Worship In 'Tehkhana' (Cellar)

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a Special Leave Petition filed by the Gyanvapi mosque committee challenging the orders of the Varanasi District Court and the Allahabad High Court allowing the performance of Hindu religious rituals at a tehkhana of the mosque.While doing so, the Court also ordered that that status quo shall be maintained with respect to. …

Gyanvapi Mosque Case: In Setback For Muslim Side, SC Refuses To Halt Prayers At Vyas Tehkhana
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Gyanvapi Mosque Case: In Setback For Muslim Side, SC Refuses To Halt Prayers At Vyas Tehkhana

News 18  

Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt Hindu prayers at Vyas Tehkhana in the Gyanvapi Mosque complex, situated in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi. The bench, however, said that Muslims can enter mosque unhindered from the northern side to offer namaz while priests of the Kashi Vishwanath temple trust would take southern entry to perform puja in the cellar. The apex court …

SC refuses to stop prayers of Hindus in Southern cellar of Gyanvapi mosque
8 months, 3 weeks ago

SC refuses to stop prayers of Hindus in Southern cellar of Gyanvapi mosque

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Hindu prayers in the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque and sought response of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple trustees on the plea of the mosque management committee. The court was hearing a fresh plea of the Gyanvapi mosque management committee against an Allahabad High Court decision upholding a lower …

Gyanvapi Case: Muslim Side Moves SC Challenging Allahabad HC's Order Allowing Suit Seeking Temple Restoration
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Gyanvapi Case: Muslim Side Moves SC Challenging Allahabad HC's Order Allowing Suit Seeking Temple Restoration

News 18  

The Muslim side on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad High Court’s last year order turning down five suits filed by the mosque committee and Sunni Waqf Board in the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi land title dispute case. The Gyanvapi Mosque committee challenged the high court’s December 19, 2023 order setting a six-month deadline for completion of proceedings in the …

Gyanvapi: Allahabad HC dismisses Muslim side's plea against Puja in Vyas Ka Tehkhana
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Gyanvapi: Allahabad HC dismisses Muslim side's plea against Puja in Vyas Ka Tehkhana

Op India  

The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a plea filed by the Muslim side challenging the district court’s order that had allowed Hindus to offer Puja and prayers at the Vyas ka Tehkhana inside the Gyanvapi complex. #BREAKING Allahabad High Court today dismissed Muslim party plea challenging order permitting Hindu parties to offer prayers and puja in the southern cellar.#Gyanvapi #AllahabadHighCourt …

Supreme Court refuses Muslim side's plea against Varanasi court order allowing Puja, asks them to approach HC
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court refuses Muslim side's plea against Varanasi court order allowing Puja, asks them to approach HC

Op India  

The Muslim side faced another setback in the Gyanvapi case after the Varanasi district court allowed Hindus to worship in the Vyas Cellar in the mosque complex, as the Supreme Court of India refused to hear their petition against the district court order. In its application, the masjid committee alleged that the administration was acting in ‘hot haste’ to implement …

Gyanvapi case: SC declines to intervene in Allahabad CJ’s order
1 year, 1 month ago

Gyanvapi case: SC declines to intervene in Allahabad CJ’s order

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on November 3 refused to entertain an appeal filed against an order of the Allahabad Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker withdrawing petitions connected to Hindu claims over the Gyanvapi mosque premises from the High Court judge hearing them. Editorial |Incremental injustice: On the Gyanvapi mosque survey Senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, for the mosque management, said the withdrawal of …

Varanasi court’s judgment on Gyanvapi case | Left parties say wrong interpretation of ‘Places of Worship Act’ will lead to serious consequences
2 years, 3 months ago

Varanasi court’s judgment on Gyanvapi case | Left parties say wrong interpretation of ‘Places of Worship Act’ will lead to serious consequences

The Hindu  

Sharply reacting to Varanasi district Court’s Order in connection to the Gyanvapi Mosque the Left parties said that wrong interpretation of Places of Worship Act 1991 by a section of judiciary will lead to serious consequences including redefining the very basic character of India. Gyanvapi case | BJP, Hindu groups hail Varanasi court’s verdict The Left parties comments come at …

Gyanvapi Case: AIMPLB 'Saddened' With District Court's Decision, Says Communal Harmony Will Be Harmed
2 years, 3 months ago

Gyanvapi Case: AIMPLB 'Saddened' With District Court's Decision, Says Communal Harmony Will Be Harmed

News 18  

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has termed “disappointing” the Varanasi district court’s decision on the maintainability of the Gyanvapi mosque case and urged the government to implement the Places of Worship Act, 1991, with full force. The Varanasi district court on Monday said it will continue to hear a petition seeking daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols …

Gyanvapi Case: Hindu petitioners win big step, court dismisses Masjid committee's plea | All that happened
2 years, 3 months ago

Gyanvapi Case: Hindu petitioners win big step, court dismisses Masjid committee's plea | All that happened

India TV News  

Highlights The court rejected the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee’s petition questioning the maintainability The matter could also come up before the Supreme Court on October 20 Allahabad HC set September 28 as the next date for hearing another case on the Varanasi mosque case Gyanvapi Mosque case : The Varanasi district court dismissed the Gyanvapi Masjid committee’s plea that was …

Court To Hear Plea Questioning Maintainability of Gyanvapi Mosque Suit on 26 May
2 years, 7 months ago

Court To Hear Plea Questioning Maintainability of Gyanvapi Mosque Suit on 26 May

The Quint  

The local court, however, on 12 May, ordered that the survey work would continue, and instead of replacing Mishra, appointed two more lawyers – Vishal Kumar Singh and Ajay Singh – to accompany him. The Allahabad High Court refused to stay this order despite it being argued by the mosque committee that the mosque was protected by the Places of …

Gyanvapi Masjid Row: The 4 Ways of Resolving This Issue within Framework of Law
2 years, 7 months ago

Gyanvapi Masjid Row: The 4 Ways of Resolving This Issue within Framework of Law

News 18  

A three-judge bench of Supreme Court headed by Justice D.Y. In Mathura, the district court has ruled that the civil court’s refusal to admit the Hindu side’s suit on grounds of the 1991 Act was incorrect. Giving a new twist to the whole controversy, Hindu Sena president contended before the Supreme Court that Gyanvapi Mosque Complex is exempted from the …

After Ayodhya, another mosque-temple dispute brews in India’s UP
3 years, 8 months ago

After Ayodhya, another mosque-temple dispute brews in India’s UP

Al Jazeera  

New Delhi, India – A court in India’s Uttar Pradesh state has passed an order related to a dispute over a centuries-old mosque and a temple situated next to each other – a case reminiscent of a similar and bloody dispute in another temple town, controversially resolved in 2019. The court in Varanasi town on Thursday directed the Archaeological Survey …

Supreme Court issues notice over petition challenging Places of Worship Act
3 years, 9 months ago

Supreme Court issues notice over petition challenging Places of Worship Act

Op India  

On Friday, the Supreme Court of India issued notice to the Centre, after a petitioner challenged the Places of Worship Act, 1991. Supreme Court Bench led by CJI SA Bobde has issued notice to Centre on plea filed by lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay challenging validity of the Places of Worship Act, 1991 @AshwiniUpadhyay #SupremeCourt — Live Law March 12, 2021 …

SC seeks Centre's response to plea challenging validity of 1991 Places of Worship Act
3 years, 9 months ago

SC seeks Centre's response to plea challenging validity of 1991 Places of Worship Act

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court sought the Centre’s response on Friday to a plea filed before it challenging the validity of certain provisions of a 1991 law, which prohibit the filing of a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship or seek a change in its character from what prevailed on 15 August, 1947. A bench of Chief Justice SA …

'Perform Religious Rituals Associated With "Muharram" Within The Religious Places', Telangana High Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Permission To Carry On 'Bibika Alam Juloos' [Read Order]
4 years, 3 months ago

'Perform Religious Rituals Associated With "Muharram" Within The Religious Places', Telangana High Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Permission To Carry On 'Bibika Alam Juloos' [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Telangana High Court on Wednesday dismissed a Writ Petition seeking permission to carry on the procession known as "Bibika Alam Juloos" starting from Alawa Bibi and passing through Dabeerpura, Etebar Chowk, Kotla Ali Jah, Charminar, Gulzar House, Panjesha, Mir Alam Mandi, Darulshefa with ending point at Almas Mosque at Chaderghat. The background of the case The present writ petition …

SP Leader Mulayam Singh Ordered Police Firing on Kar Sevaks in Ayodhya 30 Years Ago
7 years, 1 month ago

SP Leader Mulayam Singh Ordered Police Firing on Kar Sevaks in Ayodhya 30 Years Ago

Op India  

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an FIR against Mulayam Singh Yadav for ordering police firing on Kar Sevaks in Ayodhya in 1990. The petitioner, Rana Sangram Singh, claims that he was present in Ayodhya on that day and that Yadav ordered the police to fire upon the Kar Sevaks, resulting in the deaths of 16 …

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