Gyanvapi Mosque Case

A case has been registered over a "threat letter" received by the judge who ordered the filming of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi, the police said.

The judge who ordered a video survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complexin Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi told authorities on Tuesday that he had received a "threat letter", purportedly from "an organisation called Islamic Aagaz Movement".

Underlining the BJP's commitment to cultural development of the country, party president JP Nadda on Monday said that contentious religious matters would be decided by "courts and the Constitution".

The district court in Varanasi on Monday heard the arguments on the maintainability of a plea by five Hindu women seeking permission for daily worship of the Shringar Gauri Sthal in the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi complex.

While the jury is still out on Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque case and on Shahi Eidgah in Mathura, a senior UP minister on Monday said that India became a "global powerhouse" because of its gods, and they are its identity.

A letter has been written on behalf of the Anjuman Intrageniya Committee to the Varanasi district court demanding that the report of the commission should not be made public in the Gyanvapi mosque survey matter.

A district court, which on Thursday heard arguments of the Muslim side on the maintainability of the Gyanvapi complex case, fixed May 30 as the next date of hearing in the case.

The court of Varanasi's seniormost judge will begin hearing the Gyanvapi Mosque matter today.

A new petition seeking a ban on the entry of Muslims to the Gyanvapi Mosque complex was today transferred from the court of the civil judge to a fast track court in Varanasi.

The mosque committeesays that filming at the mosque violates a 1991 lawthat prevents the alteration of the character of any place of worship in the country.It wantedthe "maintainability" case to be heard first, which the court has agreed to.

The court of Varanasi's senior-most judge, hearing the Gyanvapi mosque case on orders by the Supreme Court, will today decide on whether to hear the mosque committee's contention first that filming inside the mosque carried out last week is illegal.

A Varanasi court will decide today whether to hear first the Hindu petitioners' plea to invite objections to the Gyanvapi mosque filming report or the Muslim side's case that the writ is not maintainable.

The Varanasi court hearing the Gyanvapi mosque case will pass orders tomorrow on when the fresh hearing will start and the procedure to be followed.

Hearing began in Court Of District Judge in Varanasi today after the Supreme Court on Friday ordered the transfer of the Gyanvapi mosque case from the civil judge to the district judge, Varanasi in a view complexity of matters.

A Delhi University professor who was arrested on Friday night over a social media post that appeared to question claims of a 'Shivling' found inside Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque complex, has been granted bail by a court in Delhi.

A case has been registered over a "threat letter" received by the judge who ordered the filming of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi, the police said.

The judge who ordered a video survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complexin Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi told authorities on Tuesday that he had received a "threat letter", purportedly from "an organisation called Islamic Aagaz Movement".

Underlining the BJP's commitment to cultural development of the country, party president JP Nadda on Monday said that contentious religious matters would be decided by "courts and the Constitution".

The district court in Varanasi on Monday heard the arguments on the maintainability of a plea by five Hindu women seeking permission for daily worship of the Shringar Gauri Sthal in the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi complex.

While the jury is still out on Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque case and on Shahi Eidgah in Mathura, a senior UP minister on Monday said that India became a "global powerhouse" because of its gods, and they are its identity.

A letter has been written on behalf of the Anjuman Intrageniya Committee to the Varanasi district court demanding that the report of the commission should not be made public in the Gyanvapi mosque survey matter.

A district court, which on Thursday heard arguments of the Muslim side on the maintainability of the Gyanvapi complex case, fixed May 30 as the next date of hearing in the case.

The court of Varanasi's seniormost judge will begin hearing the Gyanvapi Mosque matter today.

A new petition seeking a ban on the entry of Muslims to the Gyanvapi Mosque complex was today transferred from the court of the civil judge to a fast track court in Varanasi.

The mosque committeesays that filming at the mosque violates a 1991 lawthat prevents the alteration of the character of any place of worship in the country.It wantedthe "maintainability" case to be heard first, which the court has agreed to.

The court of Varanasi's senior-most judge, hearing the Gyanvapi mosque case on orders by the Supreme Court, will today decide on whether to hear the mosque committee's contention first that filming inside the mosque carried out last week is illegal.

A Varanasi court will decide today whether to hear first the Hindu petitioners' plea to invite objections to the Gyanvapi mosque filming report or the Muslim side's case that the writ is not maintainable.

The Varanasi court hearing the Gyanvapi mosque case will pass orders tomorrow on when the fresh hearing will start and the procedure to be followed.

Hearing began in Court Of District Judge in Varanasi today after the Supreme Court on Friday ordered the transfer of the Gyanvapi mosque case from the civil judge to the district judge, Varanasi in a view complexity of matters.

A Delhi University professor who was arrested on Friday night over a social media post that appeared to question claims of a 'Shivling' found inside Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque complex, has been granted bail by a court in Delhi.