A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which sought Mathura’s Shahi Idgah mosque site to be known as ‘Krishna Janmabhoomi’ (birthplace of Krishna), and the “removal of the mosque standing on the disputed land”, was dismissed by the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday.
A Bench of Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker and Justice Ashutosh Srivastava passed the order, a detailed copy of which is awaited.
The PIL was filed in 2020 by an advocate, Mahek Maheshwari, who argued that numerous historical texts had documented that the site in question was in fact ‘Krishna Janmabhoomi’.
