ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT RESERVED VERDICT ON PLEA MOVED CHALLENGING HINDU WORSHIPPERS' 1991 SUITI GYANVAPI-KASHI TITLE DISPUTE

The AIlahabad High Court in the case observed and has reserved its judgment on a batch of pleas moved which includes a petition challenging the civil suit of 2019 filed by Hindu worshippers seeking the right to worship in the Gyanvapi mosque.

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The present suit pending before the Varanasi court, seeks to restore an ancient temple at the disputed site currently occupied by the Gyanvapi mosque, with the petitioners wherein it contended that the mosque is a part of the temple.

The court observed that it has been the primary contention of the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee, which manages the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi and UP Sunni Central Waqf Board that the suit prohibited by the Places of Worship Act (Special Provisions) Act of 1991.

It has been stated that the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991 prohibits the conversion of a religious structure from its nature as it stood on the date of independence.

Earlier, the Supreme Court in the case observed and has refused to interfere with the order passed by Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker (now retired) transferring the cases concerning the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi Mosque dispute to his bench from the bench of another judge.