India's top court weighs in on mosque–temple controversy
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The 800-year-old Shamsi Jama Masjid in Budaun city in Uttar Pradesh. A local Hindu right-wing group, which has filed petitions to a local court seeking its control, claims that this is a Hindu temple. (Shaikh Azizur Rahman/VOA) People praying at Budaun’s Shamsi Jama Masjid on Oct. 20, 2022. Although it is a currently functioning mosque, the Hindu nationalist group Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha claims that Muslims stopped praying here 'decades ago.' (Shaikh Azizur Rahman/VOA) Shahi Idgah mosque and Krishna Janmabhumi temple in the north Indian Hindu holy city of Mathura. (Shaikh Azizur Rahman/VOA)
A trial court's order that triggered violence this week, leaving six Muslims dead, should be taken to the Uttar Pradesh state's highest court, India's Supreme Court said Friday.
