NEW DELHI: BJP Friday said Congress moving Supreme Court in support of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act was a declaration of “open war against Hindus” and the party was now the “new Muslim League“. “Congress has approached SC seeking to deny Hindus their fundamental constitutional right to legal remedies for addressing historical injustices….
NEW DELHI: Congress has moved Supreme Court in support of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, saying the law was “essential to safeguard secularism in India” which is a basic feature of the Constitution and was needed to ensure communal harmony.Seeking to intervene in the litigation initiated by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, now with BJP,…
NEW DELHI: Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti, which claims to represent 18.5 lakh pujaris and 12 lakh saints, moved Supreme Court in support of petitioners seeking scrapping of Places of Worship Act.The petitioner, an organisation of 127 sects of Sanatan Dharma, sought impleadment in pending cases filed by BJP’s Ashwini Upadhyay, Subramanian Swamy and other Hindu…
NEW DELHI: After accusing BJP govt of “brazenly violating” the Places of Worship Act, 1991, Congress is set to join the case in Supreme Court by demanding that the 1991 law be adhered to strictly.Supreme Court on December 12 ordered a stay on surveys ordered by various courts on pleas claiming that there were temples…
NEW DELHI: In view of its recent ruling staying all proceedings on disputes over religious sites, Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the fight over the Bhojshala temple-Kamal Maula mosque complex in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh be tagged and heard along with petitions challenging the validity of the Places of Worship Act which is…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday put a freeze on the spate of lawsuits for reclamation of temples allegedly converted to mosques during the Mughal era and ordered trial courts across India not to entertain any fresh suit raising a ‘mosque-temple’ dispute. It also stopped adjudication of pending ones, including those relating to the Gyanvapi…
NEW DELHI: While putting a freeze on the spate of lawsuits for reclamation of temples allegedly converted to mosques during the Mughal era while it hears the validity of the Places of Worship Act, 1991, Supreme Court said on Thursday, “The primary issue which arises for consideration is Sections 3 and 4 of the 1991…
NEW DELHI: Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay on Thursday said that the religious character of a place cannot be determined through mere observation and argued for the necessity of surveys at disputed sites.Upadhyay also challenged the validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, calling it unconstitutional and claiming it legitimizes historical actions by rulers…
NEW DELHI: Amid multiple suits being filed across country by Hindus seeking claim over religious places of Muslims alleging that they were earlier temples but converted to mosques during Mughal era and the lower court entertaining such pleas allegedly in violation of Places of Worship Act, SC will hear pleas challenging validity of the law…
EX-SC judge RF Nariman (File photo from SC website) NEW DELHI: Former Supreme Court judge and noted jurist Justice R F Nariman has expressed disappointment over the top court’s verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case and said it did not do justice to the principle of secularism. He also said the Places of Worship…
