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Congress Moves SC in Defence of Places of Worship Act
The Statesman Kolkata
|January 17, 2025
The Congress party has moved the Supreme Court defending the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 (POWA), stating that the law is essential to safeguard secularism and any alterations to it could jeopardise India's communal harmony and secular fabric and threaten its sovereignty and integrity.
The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 that prohibit the filing of a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship or seek a change in its character from what prevailed on 15 August 1947 was enacted by Parliament on 1991 in the thick of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babari Masjid dispute. The law is under challenge, amongst others, by some BJP leaders, who have challenged the constitutionality of Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991.
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