New Delhi ,May 18: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) held an emergency meeting amid the ongoing row surrounding the Gyanvapi mosque in Indian city Varanasi where Hindutva party claims of a Shivling being found inside the mosque during a survey.
The matter which is being heard by the court, the AIMPLB’s legal team would extend all the necessary assistance to the Muslim side.
The meeting lasted around two hours during which 45 members of the AIMPLB interacted virtually.
“We will go through the matters discussed and presented in the court. Our legal team will provide help to the Muslim side. At the same time, we will try to reach out to the people with facts through pamphlets, books etc. so that people don’t get misguided, ” the board said.
Also, we would like to know the stand of the Central government as well as other political parties on the Places of Worship Act, 1991,” they added.
The 1991 law prohibits conversion or changing the religious outlook of any place of worship that existed before August 15, 1947. Anyone attempting to do that can face fine and imprisonment between one year and three years.
BJP of Instigating Religious Sentiments in India: Mayawati
Luckow, May 18 : The Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati has said that the BJP is instigating religious sentiments in order to divert people’s attention from issues like unemployment, poverty and rising inflation.
Addressing a press conference here, Mayawati said that the religious places were being deliberately targeted and asked people to be alert to this conspiracy of the BJP.
She warned that the situation in the country could take a turn for the worse in the coming days.
The BSP president said that issues like Gyanvapi mosque, Mathura and Taj Mahal were being raised to weaken the nation.
“The names of places belonging to a particular religious (Muslim) community are also being changed one by one. This will disturb peace, harmony, brotherhood and lead to mutual hatred in the country. The general public of this country should be alert. This will neither benefit the country nor the general public,” she stated. —
DELHI HC TO HEAR BAIL PLEA OF JNU SCHOLAR SHARJEEL IMAM ON MAY 26
NEW DELHI ,May 18: The Delhi High Court will hear on May 26, the bail plea moved by Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) scholar-activist Sharjeel Imam, who has approached the Court for relief following the historic verdict of Indian Supreme Court,which put on hold the colonial-era penal provision of sedition.
The detained scholar Sharjeel Imam was seeking an interim bail in the fake case of speeches delivered by him at Aligarh Muslim University and in the Jamia area of Delhi during the anti-CAA agitation in 2019 and 2020.
His application seeking interim bail in the already pending plea, was posted for May 26 (Thursday) as the bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar did not assemble on Tuesday.
In the fresh bail application, he said that since the top court has put sedition in abeyance, his case has improved for the grant of bail.
"The appellant has been incarcerated for nearly 28 months since January 28, 2020 whereas the maximum punishment for the offences -- not including 124-A IPC-- are punishable up to a maximum of 7 years of imprisonment, " the plea read.
The BJP and police authorities have imposed such fake cases of Delhi riots 2020 near a dozen people including JNU scholars and activists Sharjeel Imam, and Umar
The riots broke out in the Indian capital Delhi in February 2020 as clashes between the anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) and pro-CAA protesters took a violent turn.
The mayhem, which coincided with the then US President Donald Trump's maiden trip to India, saw more than 50 people lose their lives and over 700 were injured. sources