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PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad HC will hear on Monday the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid (AIM) plea challenging the Varanasi district court’s September 12 order that held the suit filed by five Hindu women seeking right to daily worship of Shringar Gauri and other deities in the Gyanvapi complex to be maintainable.
The petition filed by AIM – the Gyanvapi mosque management committee – on October 12 has been listed before the single bench of justice JJ Munir on October 17 as a fresh case. The mosque management committee has made a prayer seeking stay of operation of district court’s order.
Varanasi district judge Ajay Krishna Vishwesha had, in his order last month, dismissed AIM’s application contesting the maintainability of the suit filed by the Hindu women plaintiffs on the ground that the Places of Worship Act, 1991, barred any change in the religious character of a place of worship, as it existed on August 15, 1947.
However, the court agreed with the plaintiffs’ contention that they had not sought conversion of the place of worship from a mosque to a temple and had only demanded the right to worship Shringar Gauri and other deities. The court held that the law could not bar the plaintiffs from worshipping as they had been offering prayers there even after August 15, 1947.
The petition filed by AIM – the Gyanvapi mosque management committee – on October 12 has been listed before the single bench of justice JJ Munir on October 17 as a fresh case. The mosque management committee has made a prayer seeking stay of operation of district court’s order.
Varanasi district judge Ajay Krishna Vishwesha had, in his order last month, dismissed AIM’s application contesting the maintainability of the suit filed by the Hindu women plaintiffs on the ground that the Places of Worship Act, 1991, barred any change in the religious character of a place of worship, as it existed on August 15, 1947.
However, the court agreed with the plaintiffs’ contention that they had not sought conversion of the place of worship from a mosque to a temple and had only demanded the right to worship Shringar Gauri and other deities. The court held that the law could not bar the plaintiffs from worshipping as they had been offering prayers there even after August 15, 1947.
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