By Muslim Mirror Staff
September27: Within a year since Supreme Court decided the long-pending Babri Masjid dispute, a civil suit has been filed in Mathura Court on behalf of Lord Shrikrishna Virajman, for removal of Masjid Idgah.
On behalf of child deity Shri Krishna Virajman, a civil suit has been filed in a court of civil judge, Mathura seeking the removal of the Shahi Idgah, adjacent to the Shri Krishna temple complex claiming that “every inch of the land… is sacred for the devotees of Shree Krishna and the Hindu community,” reports ANI.
It blamed the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb for demolishing the Krishna temple in Mathura.
“It is a matter of fact and history that Aurangzeb ruled over the country from 1658-1707 AD and he being a staunch follower of Islam had issued orders for demolition of a large number of Hindu religious places and temples including the temple standing at the birthplace of deity Shree Krishna at Katra Keshav Dev, Mathura in the year 1669-70 AD,” the suit said.
The UP Sunni Central Waqf Board and the Committee of Management of Trust of Shahi Idgah have been arraigned as defendants in the suit filed by Ranjana Agnihotri, a resident of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh through advocate Vishnu Jain.
The suit seeks recovery of 13.37 acres of land situated within the area of the temple declaring that the 1968 compromise deed as “not binding”.
It claims that the Idgah trust, with the help of some Muslims, encroached upon the land belonging to Shri Krishna Janamasthan Trust and the deity, and erected a structure.
Lord Shree Krishna was born in Karagar of King Kans and the entire area is known as ‘Katra Keshav Dev’. The place of birth lies beneath the present structure raised by the Committee of Management of the Masjid Idgah Trust, the suit said as per ANI report.The suit sought that the Sunni Waqf Board, Trust Masjid Idgah and their men, workers, attorneys and every person working under them be restrained from entering into the premises of the property and that they be directed to remove the construction illegally raised by them without the authority of the law at the property in question.
What may, however, act as a legal bar to this new suit would be the law passed in 1991: Places of Worship (Special Provisions Act). This law was passed at the height of Ram Janmabhoomi dispute and seeks to protect all religious structures as they existed at the time of Independence with the exception of the disputed site at Ayodhya.
(With inputs from ANI)