Plea seeks to stop prayers at Mathura's Shahi Idgah mosque
India Today
The fresh plea said a majority of the Hindu community believes that Lord Krishna was born at the place where the mosque stands.
A group of lawyers and law students has filed a plea in a court here demanding that Muslims be restrained from offering prayers at the Shahi Idgah mosque, which they said has been built at the place believed to be the birthplace of Lord Krishna.
Ten separate petitions had earlier been filed in Mathura courts by different Hindu groups seeking the removal of the mosque, which they claimed was built at the birthplace of the deity, within the 13.37-acre premises of the Katra Keshav Dev temple.
The fresh plea said a majority of the Hindu community believes that Lord Krishna was born at the place where the mosque stands.
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Advocate Shailendra Singh, one of the petitioners, also claimed that the mosque was built on the place where a temple once stood.
"Since the structure has been constructed on the remains of a Hindu temple, it is akin to a temple and does not qualify as the merit of a mosque," he said.
They have approached the court with a plea seeking "permanent injunction" on the use of the structure by the Muslim community, he said.
