Even though the Allahabad High Court has stayed the trial of the Jama Masjid survey, the district authorities have ordered the removal of all encroachments in and around the six protected monuments in the district.
Samajwadi Party MP Ziaur Rahman Burke has suffered a major setback in the violence that took place during the survey in Sambhal's Shahi Jama Masjid on November 24 when Allahabad High Court refused to quash an FIR registered against him.
Majoritarian logic has no place in a plural society, argue Shivanshu K Srivastava and Nupur Chaurasiya
The Supreme Court said this while reserving orders on pleas challenging the Allahabad High Court judgement declaring the 2004 Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasa Education Act as unconstitutional.
The petitioner had moved the withdrawal application on Wednesday and the court was slated to give its verdict on Thursday.
A team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Friday morning arrived at the Gyanvapi mosque premises adjacent to…
The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee that manages the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi on Thursday approached the Supreme Court against Allahabad High Court order upholding the District court order directing scientific survey of the mosque complex by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
There was a mixed reaction to the Allahabad High Court verdict allowing ASI survey of Gyanvapi mosque on Thursday.
The Allahabad High Court is expected to give a verdict on a petition against a lower court order for a survey by the Archaeological Survey of India inside the mosque complex, except the ‘wuzukhana’ (fountain).
The high court extended the stay on the ASI survey of mosque premises excluding the Wajukhana till the verdict, fixed for August 3.
