Varanasi: Shops and parts of Muslim-dominated areas remained closed and the police sounded an alert in the entire district ahead of Friday namaz, following the district court order to allow Hindu prayers in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque.
High alert has been sounded in Varanasi district on the first Friday namaz after the district court’s order.
Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, which
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The committee had moved the high court within hours of the Supreme Court refusing to hear its plea against the Varanasi district court order and asking it to approach the high court. The Varanasi court had ruled on Wednesday that a priest can perform prayers before the idols in the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque. Gyanvapi Mosque Case: No Immediate Relief for Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, Allahabad High Court To Hear Matter on February 6.
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