Gyanvapi Mosque |  Don't Want To Lose Another Masjid, Verdict 'Blatant Violation' Of Places Of Worship: Owaisi

The AIMIM chief said the court verdict in Gyanvapi mosque survey also violates the Supreme Court Judgement given in the Babri Masjid title dispute.

New Delhi: Unhappy with the Gyanvapi mosque survey, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi Thursday called the court verdict a "blatant violation" of the Places of Worship Act 1991. Ever since demand for a survey of the mosque has picked up pace, the AIMIM chief has been very vocal against the move. 

According to the act, "no person shall convert any place of worship of any religious denomination or any section thereof into a place of worship of a different section of the same religious denomination or of a different religious denomination or any section thereof," reported news agency ANI.

Owaisi made the remark after a Varanasi court while hearing the matter Thursday ordered for the survey of the Gyanvapi mosque, situated near the Kashi Vishwanath temple to continue. It also asked the team conducting the survey to submit its report in the court by May 17. Two advocates were also to the survey commission by the court.

Speaking further, the AIMIM chief said the court verdict in Gyanvapi mosque survey also violates the Supreme Court Judgement given in the Babri Masjid title dispute.

"The order of the court is a blatant violation of the Places of Worship Act 1991. It is a violation of Supreme Court judgment given in the Babri Masjid title dispute," Owaisi said to ANI.

Rising concerns over the verdict, Owaisi said he does not want to lose another masjid, after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992. he also urged Muslim organistaions to appeal against the order in the Supreme Court.

"This is a blatant violation and I hope that the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and the Masjid committee would go to the Supreme Court. I have lost one Babri Masjid and I don't want to lose another masjid," he stated.

Owaisi also urged Yogi Adityanath's government to file FIRs against people trying to change the nature of religious places.

"Yogi government should immediately file an FIR against these people as the 1991 Act clearly says that any person who tries to change the nature of religious places that stood on August 15, 1947. If courts find them guilty, they can be imprisoned for three years," Said the AIMIM chief, as reported by ANI.