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Varanasi District and Sessions Court will deliver its verdict on Monday on the maintainability of civil suits challenging the title of the Gyanvapi mosque and the land surrounding it.

Ahead of the court session, prohibitory orders were clamped and security tightened in Varanasi, news agency PTI reported.

District Judge AK Vishvesh had last month reserved the order till September 12 in the communally sensitive matter. Five women had filed the petition seeking permission for daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols are said to be located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque.