Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (JUH) will approach the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court’s decision granting the right to worship at the Gyanvapi complex and the “reestablishment” of the temple at that site in Varanasi.
Sharing the Muslim side’s plan to appeal against the High Court order, Maulana Arshad Madani, who leads one of the two factions of the JUH, said he hoped that the Places of Worship Act, 1991 (Special Provisions) Under this, such issues will not arise in Kashi and Mathura.
He reiterated Jamiat’s stand that the status quo of 1947 should be followed under the 1991 law.
“We will go as far as the law allows us to go,” Maulana Madani insisted. On the recent decision to allow survey of Gyanvapi Masjid, Maulana Madani said, “We have no objection to the survey. We believe that if the survey is conducted honestly, nothing will result.”
He said, “But the manner in which this new controversy has been created is against the 1991 law passed by Parliament on the protection of places of worship, which clearly states that any place of worship other than the Babri Masjid, which It has been in existence since 1947, but no such dispute will be raised.”
He said, “After the enactment of the Places of Worship Act, we had hoped that no issue would be raised on any mosque but communally minded forces did not allow this to happen and they started raising the issue of Gyanvapi Masjid and Idgah of Mathura.”
On December 19, a bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Aggarwal of the Allahabad High Court dismissed all five petitions challenging the maintainability of the original suit pending in a Varanasi court over the ownership of the Gyanvapi Masjid complex and the direction to conduct a comprehensive survey of the Gyanvapi complex. Were.
Justice Aggarwal said during the hearing that the original suit filed in the Varanasi court in 1991 is maintainable and is not prohibited under the Places of Worship Act, 1991.
After the decision, the management committee of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Masjid ‘Anjuman Intezamia Masjid’ had said that the order of rejection of the petitions challenging the 1991 civil case in the Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi land ownership case will be challenged in the Supreme Court. will be given. The committee had said that it will not give anything on a platter and will fight the legal battle till its last breath.