Supreme Court judge Justice S Abdul Nazeer always stood for what was right and was not one to remain neutral when faced with right and wrong, Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said on Wednesday.
The Places of Worship Act of 1991 states that the nature of all places of worship, except Ram Janmabhoomi–Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, shall be maintained as it was on August 15, 1947.
There is an aggressive movement to claim the right of Hindus to worship in Muslim mosques on the ground that these were once Hindu temples or sites of temples.
Kashi, Mathura Are Not About The Past; They Symbolise An Iconoclasm That Continues Even Today
by R Jagannathan - Apr 12, 2021 11:01 AM
The Gyanvapi mosque. (Wikimedia Commons)
Snapshot
Kashi and Mathura are not instances of Muslim iconoclasm and temple vandalism from some time in the distant past where despotic rulers had no compunctions about targeting Hindus.
These problems are extant today in many parts of the Indian sub-continent.
A Varanasi district courtâs order asking the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to check if there was a destroyed temple under the Gyanvapi mosque has raised liberal and Muslim hackles all around.