The plea was filed by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee challenging a January 31 district court order permitting Hindus to offer prayers in the southern cellar (tekhana) of the Gyanvapi Mosque.
‘This UCC is actually over 80% imposition from Hindu laws of divorce, succession and guardianship,’ says CWC member; on Gyanvapi row, he says the ‘core question is whether Places of Worship Act allows removal of any place of worship on the assumed or proved ground of a prior structure existing underneath’
The Allahabad High Court on Friday declined to stay an order passed on January 31 by a district court to permit Hindu parties to perform prayers and puja in the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque building at Varanasi