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SC to hear today fresh plea challenging validity of 1991 Places of Worship Act

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April 01, 2025

THE Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday a fresh plea challenging the validity of a provision of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, which mandates maintaining the religious character of a place as it existed on August 15, 1947.

- Suchitra Kalyan Mohanty @ New Delhi

According to the cause list uploaded in the SC's website, the plea, filed by law student Nitin Upadhyay, is slated to come up for hearing before a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar. The plea has challenged section 4(2) of the Act that barred proceedings to change the religious character of a place, besides prohibiting filing of fresh cases for the same.

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