On Saturday, a local court in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, mandated that the Archaeological Survey of India survey the Shahi Idgah Mosque, which is thought to have been constructed on the Krishna Janmabhoomi, or the location of Lord Krishna’s birth, after January 2. After January 20, the report will be sent in. The study will be identical to the one in Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque, where a Shivling, according to the lawsuit filed by Vishnu Gupta of the right-wing group Hindu Sena, will allegedly have been discovered during a survey. The next hearing in the case will take place on January 20 as set by the court.
Hindu organisations have filed numerous lawsuits asking for the removal of the Shahi Idgah Masjid from the Katra Keshav Dev temple on the grounds that the mosque was constructed on the site of Lord Krishna’s birth. According to Vishnu Gupta’s plea, the Shahi Idgah mosque was constructed at the Krishna Janmabhoomi in 1669u20131670 on Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s instructions within the 13.37-acre grounds of the Katra Keshav Dev temple.
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Vishnu Gupta’s lawyer Shailesh Dubey said that on December 8, Delhi-based Mr Gupta, national president of Hindu Sena, and its vice-president Surjit Singh Yadav, had made this claim in the court that. He presented before the court the entire history from the birth of Lord Krishna till the construction of the temple. He has also demanded cancellation of the agreement made between Shri Krishna Janmasthan Seva Sangh vs Shahi Idgah in the year 1968, calling it illegal, Mr Dubey said.
The Places of Worship Act of 1991, which preserves the religious status of any place of worship as it was on August 15, 1947, was the reason the civil court in Mathura earlier dismissed the complaint, stating that it cannot be admitted under that law. The Ayodhya temple-mosque case involving the 16th-century Babri mosque, which was destroyed in 1992 by Hindu activists who thought it was constructed on the remains of an old temple, was the lone exception to the legislation. In 2019, the Supreme Court ordered alternate property for a mosque and gave the mosque site to Hindus for a lavish Ram temple.
The Krishna Janmabhoomi lawsuit had previously been dismissed by the Mathura court because, if it had been filed, numerous worshippers might have sought redress in a variety of situations. Petitioners had then appealed against the order. In their lawsuit, the petitioners stated that they had a right to approach the court as followers of Lord Krishna. They assert that they are entitled to do worship at the real site of Lord Krishna’s birth.
To commemorate the anniversary of the Babri Mosque demolition, the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha had earlier this month called for chanting the Hanuman Chalisa within the Shahi Masjid Idgah. Seven or eight people were detained in addition to the arrest of one of the group’s leaders. A shiva linga was allegedly discovered in the pond inside the Gyanvapi Masjid complex in Varanasi in May of this year during a three-day videography survey ordered by the court.
The pond was utilised for ablution (wuzu) purifying rites, according to their lawyer, who also claimed that the pond’s water had been drained and that a shiva linga had been discovered. However, according to the Varanasi District Magistrate, none of the commission members who conducted the survey gave any information about their survey of the Gyanvapi mosque. Numerous petitions submitted by both parties following the survey are still being heard by the court.
Following the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in the protracted Ram Janmabhoomi case in November 2019, Hindu organisations have intensified their efforts to reclaim what they claim as Hindu sites in Mathura and Kashi.
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