Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque case hearing: Here’s everything you need to know - The plea challenges the maintainability of a petition filed by five Hindu women claiming that there are idols of gods and goddesses inside the mosque.
For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India’s northern Varanasi city have prayed to their gods in a mosque and a temple that are separated by one wall. Many see it as an example of religious coexistence in a country where bouts of deadly communal violence are common.
Gyanvapi case: Hearing on entry ban of Muslims in campus, 5 updates - Petition has sought ban on the entry of Muslims in the Gyanvapi campus, handing over complex to Hindus and giving the right to worship Adi Vishweshwar
The court of Varanasi's senior-most judge, hearing the Gyanvapi mosque case on orders by the Supreme Court, will today decide on whether to hear the mosque committee's contention first that filming inside the mosque carried out last week is illegal.