Places Of Worship Act Put To Test As Gyanvapi Case Goes To SC

The three-page legislation -- The Places of Worship Act, 1991 -- is at the centre of the row over videographic survey carried out at the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, where a Shivling was purportedly discovered. ....

 

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SC Tags Owaisi’s Plea On Places Of Worship Act With Pending Matters

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the tagging of a plea filed by AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi seeking implementation of the Places of Worship Act, 1991 with a pending batch of matters.....

 

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Shia Leader Asks PM Modi To Repeal Places Of Worship Act

Former chairman of Shia Waqf Board, Wasim Rizvi, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to scrap the Places of Worship Act, 1991 and said that it had been brought in by the then Congress government to appease the Muslims. ....

 

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