The mosque committee said it will not discuss the ongoing case being fought in the Varanasi courts and the Allahabad HC concerning the demands of the Hindu litigants to worship before goddess Shringar Gauri in the mosque premises for ascertaining whether the mosque stood on a pre-existing temple ..
Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, was a towering scholar who kept reiterating the secular, tolerant, inclusive and assimilative character of Urdu till his last breath.