The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Varanasi court order of January 31 by which Hindu parties were allowed to hold puja in the southern cellar of the historic Gyanvapi Mosque.
The Allahabad High Court Monday dismissed a plea challenging a district court’s order allowing puja in the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque complex.
The situation remained tense in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly on Friday as thousands of followers of Ittehad-e-Millat Council chief and Muslim scholar Tauqeer Raza Khan took to the streets after he was detained by the police for giving a 'jail bharo' call to protect the Gyanvapi mosque.
"Burn the law libraries and law books if you are delivering judgments based on faith or Aastha!" exclaimed Maulana Arshad Madani, the president of one faction of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, during a press conference organized under the auspices of the Muslim Personal Law Board at the central office of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind in Delhi on Friday.
S M Yasin, the joint secretary of the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid committee, an official body which controls the affairs of Gyanvapi and many other mosques, on Friday, issued a strong statement calling out the majoritarian bias of the judiciary.
Prominent Muslim leaders express their deep regret and concern over the abrupt initiation of puja in southern cellar of Gayanvapi mosque, marked by the overnight breaking of iron grills and placement of idols.