The Madras High Court recently noted that it was time to include the Church Properties under Section 22 A of the Registration Act 1908 which protects certain properties like temple and wakf properties from registration. The court noted that in India, being a secular country, the state was expected to treat all religions alike and thus suggested bringing church properties …
The Supreme Court on 19th April ruled that the keys to a ‘Mosque’ in Erandol Taluka, Jalgaon, will stay with the municipal council. While ordering this, the bench of Justices Surya Kant and K.V Vishwanathan dismissed the Jumma Masjid Trust Committee’s appeal against the Bombay High Court’s ruling asking it to deliver the keys to the Jalgaon mosque to the …
In his article, CR Kesavan has argued against state control of temples. Vaikom, situated in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore, is regarded as the starting point of the temple reform movement when Periyar EV Ramasamy and Sree Narayana Guru led protests against the ban on persons from backward classes using the road adjacent to the local temple. Despite such …
The Shia Wakf Board on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was ready to forgo one third of 2.77 acre of disputed land allotted to Muslim bodies by the Allahabad High Court to Hindus for construction of a temple at Ayodhya. "I am supporting the Hindu side," lawyer M C Dhingra, appearing for Shia Wakf Board, told the bench, …
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