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Updated Mar 12, 2021 | 15:41 IST
Petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay says that the Act takes away the rights of Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs to reclaim their places of worship through courts and legalises illegal acts of invaders.
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In a very significant development, the Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre, on a Public Interest Litigation which challenged the validity of Places of Worship Act 1991 that had provided for maintaining the status quo of religious structures as it existed on August 15, 1947.
The Act had in fact barred litigation on any place of worship for change of its character as existed in 1947, except the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case which was decided in November 2019 by a five-judge bench led by then Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi who ruled in favour of the Hindu side and cleared the decks for the construction of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya. The masjid sid ....

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