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Gyanvapi Case: Varanasi court upholds maintainability of Hindu side's petition, next hearing on 22 Sep

The petition was filed by 5 women seeking permission for daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols are said to be located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque, which is located close to Kashi Vishwanath temple. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Gyanvapi case | Varanasi court says Hindu petitioners’ plea maintainable

District judge A.K. Vishvesha ruled that the Hindu ‘plaintiffs will have right to prove their averments by cogent evidence’, as the next hearing is slated for September 22

The Hindu

Gyanvapi dispute | Varanasi court reserves verdict on maintainability of suit by Hindu plaintiffs

Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee concludes its arguments

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Gyanvapi is Waqf property: Mosque committee tells court

The committee informed the court that the Gyanvapi mosque is a Waqf property and only the Waqf Board has the right to hear any matter pertaining to it

The Hindu

Gyanvapi dispute: Hindu side concludes, Masjid panel to rebut on Monday

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The Hindu

Supreme Court to await Varanasi judge’s decision in Gyanvapi case

Special Bench did not act on plea of mosque caretakers to first decide correctness of local court’s order to appoint advocate commissioner

The Hindu

Lead plaintiff begins submissions in Gyanvapi dispute

Religious character of the site was Hindu till 1993, plaintiff’s counsel argues

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SC agrees to list plea seeking darshan, pooja of shivling reportedly found on Gyanvapi mosque premises

Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain urged the CJI to list the plea along with another petition filed by Anjuman Intejamia Masjid, the caretakers of the Gyanvapi mosque.

The Hindu

Varanasi district court to hear Gyanvapi case next on Monday

4 of five plaintiffs conclude submissions opposing Masjid panel’s plea

The Hindu

Gyanvapi dispute: Hindu side continues arguments, matter to be taken up tomorrow

After the hearing on Thursday, Vishnu Shankar Jain said, “We cited the relevant judgments and argued at length about the relevance of the Hindu Shastric Law and how it is applicable under the Indian Evidence Act

The Hindu

Hindu plaintiffs begin arguments in Gyanvapi dispute

The civil suit was initially filed by five women seeking the right to pray at a Hindu temple adjacent to the mosque throughout the year

The Hindu

Gyanvapi dispute | Hearing resumes, Judge hears submissions from masjid panel

The committee has challenged maintainability of the Hindu side’s suit; next hearing on July 12

The Hindu

Don’t look for shivlings in every mosque, says Mohan Bhagwat

RSS chief advocates resolution of Gyanvapi mosque-Kashi Vishwanath temple dispute by mutual consent

The Hindu

Gyanvapi case: Prominent Hindu seer says will offer prayers before claimed ‘Shivling’ on June 4

This comes in the wake of claims by Hindu litigants in the Shringar Gauri-Gyanvapi Mosque case that a ‘Shivling’ was found in the complex during a court-mandated survey of the premises last month

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The Hindu

Split among Gyanvapi Hindu plaintiffs may spread to other cases too

Hari Shankar Jain calls it ‘betrayal’ but says he continues to represent the other four plaintiffs

The Hindu

Gyanvapi will be decided through ‘courts and Constitution’, says J.P. Nadda

BJP will follow decision in letter and spirit: BJP president

The Hindu

Gyanvapi row | Suit for Hindu prayers inside mosque posted for July

Mosque panel asked to file objections as court posts matter for hearing on July 8

Newslaundry

Reporters Without Orders Ep 221: Targeting Gyanvapi mosque

Host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Aishwarya Iyer of Scroll who talks about her series on the Hindutva campaign around the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

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The Hindu

Gyanvapi case | Hindu plaintiffs suit not maintainable, says mosque panel

New Delhi

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Gyanvapi and the principle of non-retrogression

The Supreme Court of India must ensure the continuity of this doctrine of progressive realisation of rights

The Independent UK

Dispute over mosque becomes religious flashpoint in India

For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India’s Varanasi city have prayed to their gods in a mosque and a temple that are separated by one wall

Newslaundry

Sansad Watch Ep 35: Gyanvapi's Babri connection

The controversy around the Gyanvapi Masjid isn't recent but took root three decades ago with L K Advani's Ram Janmabhoomi Rath Yatra. In response to communal violence, the Indian parliament had passed the Places of Worship Act, 1991 – the law being cited in the Gyanvapi case 32 years later.

The Hindu

Varanasi court to hear masjid panel plea in Gyanvapi case

Asks parties to file objections to panel’s report within 7 days

The Hindu

Series of happenings in courts probe boundaries of Places of Worship Act

Act prohibits conversion of places of worship and provides for maintenance of their religious character as it existed on August 15, 1947

The Hindu

Fact check round-up: Misinformation on Gyanvapi mosque survey

Here is a compilation on various claims going around regarding Kashi Viswanath temple and Gyanvapi mosque, and the truth behind them.

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