New Delhi: The law to maintain the status quo on 15 August 1947 regarding ownership in all religious places of the country has been challenged in the country's highest court. At present, the apex court has adjourned the hearing on this petition for 4 weeks. The organization named Vishva Bhadra Pujari Purohit Mahasangh argues that the Place of Worship Act is against Hindus. During this, he cannot claim the holy temples on which mosques were forcibly built, including Kashi and Mathura.
Section 4 of the Places of Worship Act, made in the year 1991, states that the status of all religious places should be maintained on August 15, 1947. In this petition, the court has been demanded to repeal the said section. The Ayodhya issue was excluded from this law, as a legal dispute was already going on in the Ayodhya case at that time. In this petition filed in the apex court, it was stated that the Place of Worship Act has never been challenged till date nor any court has considered its legality.
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has also reached the Supreme Court against this petition. Jamiat Ulma-e-Hind has urged the court not to consider this petition. Earlier, the apex court had given a historic verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid case, with which this years-old dispute was settled. This decision came in favor of Ramlala. The apex court had ordered the government to provide 5 acres of land in Ayodhya to the Sunni Central Waqf Board.
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