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The Varanasi district court has rejected the plea questioning the maintainability of a petition seeking permission for daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols are located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque.
As per report by PTI, District judge AK Vishvesh delivered the verdict in the Gyanvapi Shrinagar Gauri dispute case and posted the matter for further hearing on September 22.
“The court rejected the Muslim side’s petition and said the suit is maintainable. The next hearing of the case is on September 22,” said advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing the Hindu side in the Gyanvapi mosque case.
District Judge A K Vishvesh ordered that it would continue to hear the petition seeking the right to worship in the temple. Five women had filed the petition seeking permission for daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols are claimed to be located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque.
The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee has said the Gyanvapi mosque is a Waqf property and has questioned the maintainability of the plea. The district judge had last month reserved the order till September 12 in the communally sensitive matter. The court fixed September 22 as the next date of hearing in the case.
The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Monday termed the Varanasi district court order in the Gyanvapi mosque lawsuit as “very satisfactory’, while stressing that it is not about victory or defeat and should be accepted with “grace and calmness”.
The legal battle in the matter has crossed its “first hurdle’ with the court’s decision, VHP working president Alok Kumar said.
The reaction of the right wing Hindu outfit came after the Varanasi district court rejected the plea questioning the maintainability of a petition seeking permission for daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols are located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said that the order given in the Gyanvapi Shrinagar Gauri dispute would lead to a ‘destabilising effect’ and that matter is going on the same path as that of the Babri masjid issue.
While talking to the mediapersons in Hyderabad, Telangana, Owaisi said, “A destabilising effect will start after this. We’re going on the same path as that of the Babri masjid issue. When judgement on Babri Masjid was given, I warned everyone that this will create problems in the country as this judgement was given on the basis of faith.”
“There should be an appeal in high court against this order. I hope Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee will appeal against this order. I believe that after this order, the purpose of the Places of Worship Act 1991 will fail,” he added.
