Hindu Devouts Want Removal Of Mosque Claimed To Be Built At 'Exact Birthplace Of Lord Krishna'
Hindu devouts have turned their attention to Mathura and moved Mathura civil court for the removal of a mosque allegedly built on orders of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1669-70 at the exact birthplace of Lord Sri Krishna.
After the Babri Masjid and Ram Janambhoomi dispute in Ayodhya, a group of Hindu devouts have turned their attention to Mathura and moved Mathura civil court for the removal of a mosque allegedly built on orders of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1669-70 at the exact birthplace of Lord Sri Krishna within the 13.37-acre premises of Katra Keshav Dev temple in the holy city.
A petition has been filed in the court of Mathura Senior Civil Judge Chhaya Sharma on September 25 and has demanded the annulment of a 1968 Mathura court ruling, ratifying a land deal reached between the Shree Krishna Janmasthan Seva Sansthan and Shahi Idgah Management Committee, perpetuating the existence of the mosque within the temple premises, according to a report by news agency PTI.
Suit to claim 'Krishna Janmabhoomi'
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The suit, filed by Vishnu Jain seeks reclamation of 13.37 acre land after declaring that the 1968 compromise deed was not binding @vishnujain3 pic.twitter.com/xvOhm0nadt
The petition was filed by Lucknow resident Ranjana Agnihotri and five others, including Delhi resident Parvesh Kumar, Rajesh Mani Tripathi of Siddharth Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, Karunesh Kumar Shukla of Basti, and Shivaji Singh and Tripurari Tiwari, both of Lucknow.
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"Agnihotri, 51, has also moved the court as the next friend of both the deities, Sri Krishna Virajman and the Asthan Shrikrishna Janam Bhoomi, Katra Keshav Dev, claiming both to be juristic persons, liable to be represented in courts by their next friends, if the temple 'shebaits' fail to move court to protect deities rights and interests," the report adds.
Four organisations - UP Sunni Central Waqf Board and the Committee of Management of the Shahi Masjid Idgah, the 17th-century mosque existing within the temple premises - have been arrayed as the respondent in the plea.
The other two respondents are Shree Krishna Janambhoomi Trust, Mathura and Shree Krishna Janm Sthan Sewa Sansthan through their respective secretaries.
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On the timing of the moving court, the petitioners have asserted that the cause of action against the continuing wrong has been accruing every day and it last accrued on January 15, 2020, when the plaintiffs had visited Mathura to pay their obeisance to Lord Krisna and were shocked to see a mosque existing right within the temple.
In another development, Akhil Bhartiya Akhada Parishad (ABAP), top decision-making body of the 13 Hindu monastic orders of the country, has called for 'liberation' of Kashi and Mathura by removing two mosques.
In Kashi (Varanasi), the Gyanvapi mosque shares a boundary wall with Kashi Vishwanath temple while in Mathura, the Shahi Idgah mosque stands next to the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple premises - both of which the saints want removed.
