New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The Muslim side has moved the Supreme Court challenging the recent verdict of the Madhya Pradesh High Court which recognised the Bhojshala complex in Dhar as a Hindu temple and granted exclusive worship rights to the Hindu community.As per details available on the apex court’s official website, a Special Leave Petition (SLP) has been filed by Quazi Moinuddin, and the matter has been registered as Diary No. 32281/2026.The plea, filed at around 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, is …
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New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) It would be a matter of delight if the cow is declared a “national animal”, said Jamiat Ulema-e- Hind president Maulana Syed Arshad Madani on Wednesday, while holding the polarising politics around the sacred animal as the “root cause” behind incidents of hate-filled rants and attacks against the minority community. Venting his concern over the ‘politics of hatred’ and rising incidents of lynching against Muslims, apparently at the hands of cow vigilantes, Ma…
Dehradun, May 19 (IANS) Uttarakhand Madrasa Education Board Chairman Mufti Shamoon Qasmi on Tuesday expressed support for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over his remarks opposing the practice of offering namaz on public roads, saying that those who claim to represent the Muslim community often lack a proper understanding of Islamic teachings. This came as CM Yogi on Monday asserted that offering namaz on public roads should not be allowed, saying that roads are meant for smooth tra…
Dhar (Madhya Pradesh), May 16 (IANS) Following the verdict of the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, the historic Bhojshala complex in Dhar witnessed its first formal day of daily Hindu worship on Saturday. The court, in its ruling delivered on Friday, May 15, officially recognised the eleventh-century structure as a temple dedicated to Goddess Vagdevi Saraswati.This decision effectively ended a decades-old arrangement and triggered an atmosphere of immense jubilation among devotees …
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The West Bengal Backward Class Development Department had directed District Magistrates to re-verify all Backward Class certificates, including Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) documents issued in their respective districts in the last 15 years from 2011 to 2026, that is the three terms of the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the state.Insiders from the current state secretariat of Nabanna said that cle…
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) National General Secretary of the Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti Swami Jitendranand Saraswati, on Friday, claimed that according to the ‘Sant Samiti’, popular temples in the country were demolished to create mosques.His reaction came after the Madhya Pradesh High Court recognised the Bhojshala complex as a Hindu temple and the property of King Bhoj. Revoking the ASI’s 2003 order, the court granted the Hindu side the exclusive right to perform worship at the site while dismis…
Dhar, May 15 (IANS) Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, who represented the Hindu side in the Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute, on Friday termed the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s verdict “historic” after the Indore bench declared the disputed complex in Dhar as belonging to Raja Bhoj and granted Hindus the right to worship. Speaking to the media after the court pronounced its judgment, Jain said, “The Indore High Court has delivered a historic verdict, partially setting aside the A…
Dhar/Bhopal, May 15 (IANS) Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti on Friday welcomed the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s decision declaring the disputed Bhojshala complex in Dhar as a temple dedicated to Goddess Saraswati. “After speaking with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in Dehradun on the Ganga, I was heading up towards Devprayag in the Himalayas when I came to know about the decision of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh on …
Bhopal/Indore, May 15 (IANS) The Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has redefined the legal status of the Bhojshala complex in Dhar by ruling that the site is a temple and that the Hindu community possesses an inherent right to worship there which was never lost to history.In a significant judgment delivered on Friday, the division bench of Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi set aside decades of administrative compromises surrounding the disputed site.The court observ…
Indore, May 15 (IANS) Hindu petitioners in the case regarding the Bhojshala and Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar, on Friday asserted that the idol of Goddess Vagdevi (Sarawati) will be reinstalled at Bhojshala.The reaction came after the Madhya Pradesh High Court recognised the Bhojshala complex as a Hindu temple and the property of King Bhoj. It set aside the Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI) previous order allowing Muslims to offer namaz there.Furthermore, the MP High Court has directed…