New Delhi: Hindu Sena‘s national president Vishnu Gupta has written to the director general of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), requesting a survey of Delhi’s iconic Jama Masjid. In the letter, Gupta alleged that Hindu deities’ idols were buried within the mosque.The Hindu Sena chief further alleged that the historic Jama mosque was constructed after…
In the wake of the violence, the Sambhal District Magistrate issued a notice prohibiting outsiders, social organizations, or public representatives from entering the area without official permission. SAMBHAL: Two more people injured during Sunday morning’s violent clashes in Sambhal died on Monday, taking the toll in the incident to five. Meanwhile, seven FIRs have been…
NEW DELHI: Union minister and BJP MP Giriraj Singh on Monday blamed the opposition for the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal, calling it a “pre-planned strategy” akin to the Godhra incident. Clashes during a court-mandated survey at the Mughal-era Jama Masjid on Sunday left three dead and over 20 police personnel injured. A fourth injured…
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court issued an order on Monday giving ASI another week to respond to a suit seeking an archaeological survey of Agra’s Jama Masjid and the appointment of an advocate commissioner to oversee it.The plaintiffs contend that an idol of the deity Thakur Keshavdev from the Krishna Janmabhoomi shrine that was purportedly razed…
