Gyanvapi mandir-masjid dispute to be heard by Supreme Court today | All you need to know
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A day after the purported finding of a Shivling inside the Gyanvapi mosque-Shringar Gauri premises, Supreme Court is likely to hear a plea by the mosque management committee challenging the survey of the mosque complex.
The purported finding of a Shivling inside the Gyanvapi mosque-Shringar Gauri complex in Varanasi during a court-mandated survey on Monday (May 16) has reignited the mandir-masjid debate, with the matter once again ending up in court.
The Supreme Court is likely to hear a plea by the mosque management committee, Anjuman-e-Intezamia, on Tuesday (May 17) challenging the videography survey of the mosque complex ordered by a lower court on the grounds that it contravenes provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991.
With the survey and videography proceedings complete, the Muslim side is hopeful of a favourable order -- a stay on the proceedings and not make the survey and its report public.
1. The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act states that the nature of all places of worship, except Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, shall be maintained as it was on August 15, 1947 and that no suit shall lie in any court with respect to the conversion of the religious character of a place of worship, as existing on that date.
2. The Muslim side’s petition before the Supreme Court argues that the fresh suits filed in 2021 citing the “right to worship” were “barred by the 1991 Places of Worship Act” and were an attempt to revive the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi mosque dispute which had been put to rest by this law. It also argued that allowing the “right to worship” in the mosque would “change the religious character” of the Gyanvapi Mosque.
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