AIMPLB terms Gyanvapi survey an attempt to crate communal disharmony

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AIMPLB terms Gyanvapi survey an attempt to crate communal disharmony

Wednesday, 18 May 2022 | PNS | Lucknow

The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board condemned the survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex and sealing of the ‘wazu khana’ (ablution area) terming it unfair and an attempt to create communal disharmony.

On Monday, the court-mandated videography survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi concluded amidst tight security. Following the claim by a lawyer that a ‘Shivling’ was found in a well inside the premises, a civil court issued an order to seal the area and prohibit entry of people.

In a statement, AIMPLB general secretary Khalid Saifullah Rahmani said, “Gyanvapi mosque is a mosque and will remain a mosque. The attempt to term it a temple is nothing more than a conspiracy to create communal disharmony. It is a matter of constitutional rights and is against the law.”

“In 1937, in the case of Deen Mohammad Vs State, the court had decided on the basis of oral testimony and documents that this entire compound (Gyanvapi mosque complex) belongs to the Muslim Waqf and Muslims have the right to offer namaz in it,” he pointed out.

Rahmani said the court had also decided how much area belongs to the mosque and how much to the temple. At the same time, the ‘wazu khana’, a small reservoir used by Muslims to perform ablution before offering namaz, was accepted as the property of the mosque.

“Then in 1991 came the Places of Worship Act which states that the places of worship, as they were in 1947, will be maintained in the same condition. Even in the Babri Masjid judgment, it was said that now all places of worship will be under this law,” he added.

The AIMPLB general secretary also said that the claim of the mosque being a temple should have been immediately rejected by the court, but it ordered the survey and videography.

The board has moved the high court and the case is pending there. The Gyanvapi mosque management committee has also approached the Supreme Court against the civil court’s decision.

“The issue is being heard. But by ignoring all these things, the civil court first issued the order of the survey and then issued an order to seal the portion of ‘wazu khana’,” Rahmani said.

Seeking government’s intervention, the AIMPLB said, “This order is an excess and also a violation of law which cannot be expected from a court. The government should stop the implementation of the order and wait for the Allahabad High Court’s decision. The government should protect all religious places as per the 1991 Act.”

Referring to the claims of a temple inside the mosque, Rahmani said, “If the status of the places of worship is changed on the basis of such arguments, the whole country will be pushed into turmoil, because many big temples are made by converting Buddhist and Jain shrines and their traces are also visible there. Muslims cannot tolerate this atrocity. The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board will fight this injustice at every level,” he said.

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