IANS

Mathura, December 24

A Mathura district court docket on Saturday ordered the survey of the Shahi Idgah mosque, which is claimed to be constructed on the birthplace of Lord Krishna, by the Archaeological Survey of India from January 2.

The court docket handed the order on a lawsuit filed by Vishnu Gupta of the Hindu Sena.

The report will likely be submitted on January 20.

The lawsuit is without doubt one of the many by Hindu outfits demanding the removing of the seventeenth century Shahi Idgah Masjid from the Katra Keshav Dev temple, claiming that the mosque has been constructed on the birthplace of Lord Krishna.

The Shahi Idgah mosque was reportedly constructed on Krishna Janmabhoomi on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1669-70.

The civil court docket in Mathura had earlier dismissed the case saying it can’t be admitted beneath the Places of Worship Act of 1991, which maintains the spiritual standing of anyplace of worship because it was on August 15, 1947.

The solely exception to the legislation was the Ayodhya temple-mosque case involving the sixteenth century Babri mosque, razed in 1992 by Hindu activists who believed it was constructed on the ruins of an historical temple.

The Supreme Court in 2019 handed over the mosque website to Hindus for a grand Ram temple and ordered different land for a mosque.

The petitioners argued of their swimsuit that as devotees of Lord Krishna, they’ve a proper to method the court docket. They say they’ve the appropriate to worship on the precise birthplace of Krishna.

The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha had earlier this month given a name for reciting Hanuman Chalisa contained in the Shahi Masjid Idgah to mark the anniversary of the Babri Mosque demolition. One of the outfit’s leaders was arrested and 7 or eight have been detained.

On February 19, 2021, a civil swimsuit titled “Bhagwan Sri Krishna Virajman and Others Vs UP Sunni Central Waqf Board and Others” was filed earlier than the court docket of the civil decide (senior division), Mathura, for removing of encroachment and construction illegally raised by the ‘committee of administration’ of the Trust Masjid Idgah with the consent of the Sunni Central Board of Waqf.