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The Places of Worship Act, 1991, is a malevolent piece of legislation. In his petition in Supreme Court against the Places of Worship Act, advocate Ashwini Upadhyay has argued that it offends Articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, and 29, besides violating the principles of secularism itself. “Centre by making the impugned Act, has created arbitrary irrational retrospective cutoff date, …