Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking dismissal of the petition challenging the 'Places of Worship Act'. In this matter, the Supreme Court may hear after the summer vacation in July.
The Gyanvapi case of Varanasi is pending in the District Court, while more than one such petition has been filed in the Supreme Court. In which the court has been asked to declare the Places of Worship Act unconstitutional.
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has filed this application in the Supreme Court through Advocate Ejaz Maqbool. In this petition, which intervened on the instructions of Maulana Arshad Madani, it is written that there were two objectives of implementing the 'Places of Worship Act 1991'. The first objective was to prevent the conversion of any religious place and the second was to keep the places of worship in the same condition or form as they were in 1947.
Both these objectives were upheld by the court in the judgment of the Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhoomi property case. It has been said in the petition that the Places of Worship Act strengthens the basic structure of the Constitution of India, it has been mentioned in the Babri Masjid case judgment (paragraph 99, Page 250) And to protect this law it is the responsibility of the secular country to protect all religious places. The petition further states that in the judgment of the Babri Masjid case, a five-judge Constitutional Bench has done a detailed analysis of the Places of Worship Act. According to which this law strengthens the foundation of the Constitution of India as well as protects it and Section 4 of this law prohibits the conversion of places of worship. By making this law, the government has taken the constitutional responsibility of protecting the places of worship of people of all religions, that it will take the responsibility of protecting the places of worship of all religions and the purpose of making this law is to strengthen the foundation of secularism.
Chief Gulzar Azmi, head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Legal Aid Committee, said that the Places of Worship Act was passed on 18 September 1991. According to which the status of religious places at the time of independence on 15 August 1947 cannot be changed. Only the Babri Masjid dispute was excluded from this law as the matter was already pending in various courts. It is to be known that even before this, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of Vishwa Bhadra Pujari Prohit Mahasangh and others, a committee of Hindu priests. In which he has challenged the legal status of the place of worship, that is, the constitutional status of the place of worship. This petition was heard in the Supreme Court on 10 July 2020. Senior Advocate Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Advocate on Record Ejaz Maqbool and others appeared for Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind.
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking dismissal of the petition challenging the 'Places of Worship Act'. In this matter, the Supreme Court can hear after the summer vacation i.e. in July.
The Gyanvapi case of Varanasi is pending in the District Court, while more than one such petition has been filed in the Supreme Court. In which the court has been asked to declare the Places of Worship Act unconstitutional.
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has filed this application in the Supreme Court through Advocate Ejaz Maqbool. In this petition, which intervened on the instructions of Maulana Arshad Madani, it is written that there were two objectives of implementing the 'Places of Worship Act 1991'. The first objective was to prevent the conversion of any religious place and the second was to keep the places of worship in the same condition or form as they were in 1947.
Both these objectives were upheld by the court in the judgment of the Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhoomi property case. It has been said in the petition that the Places of Worship Act strengthens the basic structure of the Constitution of India, it has been mentioned in the Babri Masjid case judgment (paragraph 99, Page 250) And to protect this law it is the responsibility of the secular country to protect all religious places. The petition further states that in the judgment of the Babri Masjid case, a five-judge Constitutional Bench has done a detailed analysis of the Places of Worship Act. According to which this law strengthens the foundation of the Constitution of India as well as protects it and Section 4 of this law prohibits the conversion of places of worship. By making this law, the government has taken the constitutional responsibility of protecting the places of worship of people of all religions, that it will take the responsibility of protecting the places of worship of all religions and the purpose of making this law is to strengthen the foundation of secularism.
Chief Gulzar Azmi, head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Legal Aid Committee, said that the Places of Worship Act was passed on 18 September 1991. According to which the status of religious places at the time of independence on 15 August 1947 cannot be changed. Only the Babri Masjid dispute was excluded from this law as the matter was already pending in various courts. It is to be known that even before this, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of Vishwa Bhadra Pujari Prohit Mahasangh and others, a committee of Hindu priests. In which he has challenged the legal status of the place of worship, that is, the constitutional status of the place of worship. This petition was heard in the Supreme Court on 10 July 2020. Senior Advocate Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Advocate on Record Ejaz Maqbool and others appeared for Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind.