Gyanvapi case: Allahabad HC rejects Muslim side plea, Hindu prayers to continue

The Allahabad High Court on 26th February rejected a plea by the Anjuman Intezamia challenging permission granted to Hindus to offer prayers in the southern cellar known as 'vyas tehkhana' of the Gyanvapi mosque complex.

With this, the prayers, which began after 31 years following a Varanasi district court order, will continue.

The court said that the state government's 1993 order of stopping worship rituals inside Vyas Tehkhana was illegal.

Dismissing both the appeals, Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal said, "After going through the entire records of the case and considering the arguments of the parties concerned, the court did not find any ground to interfere in the judgment passed by the district judge on January 17, appointing the Varanasi district magistrate as the receiver of the property, as well as the order dated January 31 by which the district court permitted puja in the tehkhana." Justice Agarwal had reserved his verdict in the matter on February 15 after hearing the counsel for the parties.

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