ON grounds similar to the Gyanvapi mosque survey in Varanasi, a plea was filed in a district court in Mathura asking for the survey of another mosque which shares some area with the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi, which was agreed to. A Mathura court in Uttar Pradesh on May 19 finally allowed the plea seeking removal of the Shahi Idgah Masjid, which is claimed to be built on the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi sthal to be filed. District Judge Rajeev Bharti overturned a civil court order that had dismissed the plea. The Court in its order said that the plea to remove the Shahi Idgah Masjid on the ground that it was built over Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi land is maintainable. The plaintiffs, in this case, asked for a claim on 13.37 acres of land on the ground that it was the birthplace of Lord Krishna. The verdict in the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah Masjid dispute case was earlier reserved by a court on May 5.
The Mathura Civil Court had on September 30, 2020, refused to admit a plea seeking removal of the Masjid adjacent to Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura. The Court dismissed the plea on the ground that the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, had exempted litigation over ownership in the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, but had barred any other court from entertaining litigation that would seek to alter the status quo of a religious place as it existed in 1947.
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