Four of the five Hindu plaintiffs in the ongoing Gyanvapi mosque-Kashi Vishwanath temple civil dispute on Friday, concluded their submissions before a Varanasi district court, opposing the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee’s application, challenging the maintainability of their suit.
Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, one of the lawyers leading the team for four of the Hindu plaintiffs, said, “We have concluded our submissions on this point. We argued that a temple existed at the disputed site before the mosque and that the setting up of the mosque did not alter the religious character of the site.”
The Masjid panel has challenged the suit filed by the plaintiffs on the grounds that it is barred by the Places of Worship Act, 1991 which freezes the religious character of a site as it stood on August 15, 1947.
