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What was long feared seems to be coming true. After the votaries of the Ram Mandir at the disputed site in Ayodhya have had their way, attempts to re-open the mosque-temple controversies in Mathura and Varanasi are now on. The other day, a junior magistrate in Mathura threw out an application to examine whether the mosque in question stood over what was a historic temple, saying that the petitioner lacked locus. But the relief that hugely emotive issues which threaten to open afresh old wounds of a corrosive communal nature would remain in check was short-lived.
Kashi, Mathura Are Not About The Past; They Symbolise An Iconoclasm That Continues Even Today
by R Jagannathan - Apr 12, 2021 11:01 AM
The Gyanvapi mosque. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Kashi and Mathura are not instances of Muslim iconoclasm and temple vandalism from some time in the distant past where despotic rulers had no compunctions about targeting Hindus.
These problems are extant today in many parts of the Indian sub-continent.
A Varanasi district courtâs order asking the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to check if there was a destroyed temple under the Gyanvapi mosque has raised liberal and Muslim hackles all around.
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An urgent application has been moved by Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Varanasi before the Allahabad High Court in the title dispute concerning Kashi Vishwanath Temple - Gyanvapi Mosque case stating that the Civil Judge acted in the most arbitrary manner while passing the order to allow the Archaeological Survey of India for undertaking a survey at the disputed site.
The application, while praying for staying the effect and operation of the impugned order dated 8th April 2021, states thus: That the presiding officer of Sri Ashutosh Tiwari the Civil Judge (S. D.) F. T. C. Varanasi is behaving in the most arbitrary manner and is passing the orders against the spirit of Judicial discipline.
Varanasi: A petitioner in the Gyanvapi mosque case on behalf of Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar, Harihar Pandey received a life threat on his phone on April 8 soon after a local court pronounced the verdict directing the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct an archaeological survey of the Gyanvapi compound to ascertain if a temple existed at the spot earlier.
Pandey informed that he received a phone call from an unknown number in the evening on the day of the verdict in favour of the petitioners. The caller threatened Pandey that he would be killed. Pandey called senior police officials and intimated them about the threat verbally following which ACP Awadhesh Pandey met him and collected all the details. The ACP said that the phone number is being traced and investigation is on.