Places of Worship Act Should Be Followed, Says Digvijaya Singh On Gyanvapi Case
The Allahabad High Court on Friday rejected an interim stay on Varanasi court order which granted Hindu prayers in Gyanvapi mosque cellar. Responding to the court verdict, Congress MP Digvijaya Singh said that The Place of Worship(Special Provisions) Act, 1991, should be followed in such cases. According to the act, the religious character of a place of worship “shall continue to be the same as it existed” on August 15, 1947.
Congress leader told ANI: “A law was made soon after the demolition of Babri masjid, according to which, a place of worship in 1947, shall remain as it is, except Ram Mandir and Babri Masjid. That law should be followed.”
#WATCH | On the recent court verdict in the Gyanvapi case, Congress MP Digvijaya Singh says, “A law was made soon after the demolition of Babri masjid, according to which, a place of worship in 1947, shall remain as it is, except Ram Mandir and Babri Masjid. That law should be… pic.twitter.com/dhJqM7nySi
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Hearing the plea by the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee (which manages the Gyanvapi mosque) Allahabad High Court today granted time till February 6 to amend its pleadings to include a challenge to a January 17 order consequent to which the January 31 order was passed, Bar and Bench reports.
On Wednesday, a Varanasi court allowed permission to Hindu devotees to perform Puja within the sealed basement of the Gyanvapi mosque. According to the court’s ruling, devotees are now allowed to offer prayers at ‘Vyas Ka Tekhana,’ a previously restricted area within Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque. Hours after the court verdict, a Hindu priest assigned by the Kashi Vishwanath temple offered prayers in the cellar of the mosque.
It was on last week, after the ASI or Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) released a report saying that a large Hindu temple existed before the construction of the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi, Hindu right wing organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) to handover the original site of the Varanasi-based mosque to the Hindu Society.
