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New Delhi : The Supreme Court was on Friday told that a mosque will remain a place of worship even after it has been desecrated and destroyed through a “barbaric act.” “A mosque will remain a place of worship even after it has been destroyed,” senior counsel Rajeev Dhavan told the bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer, hearing a batch of cross petitions challenging a 2010 Allahabad High Court verdict on the Ayodhya title suit. “It is quite a different matter to say that an area has been acquired and quite another to say mosque is not a mosque forever,” Dhavan said. Dhavan appeared for the main petitioner, Mohammad Siddiqui, now being represented by legal heirs. The bench is hearing arguments on the plea to revisit 1994 top court judgment which had said that the mosque was not was not an essential part of Islamic religious practice and that namaz could be offered anywhere, even in open places. Describing the Dec...

New Delhi: Supreme Court began its final hearing on Babri masjid dispute on Sunday when an NGO “Citizens for justice and peace” challenged the Allahabad High court’s decision citing it as a political one. The members who challenged the decision include Teesta Setalvad, Shyam Benegal, Aparna Sen, Aruba Roy, Kumar Ketkar and Anand Patwardhan. The activists are public spirited citizens from all walks of life. One of their primary demands was that the ‘disputed site be used for a non-religious public use, irrespective of the adjudication of the suit.’ The Activists also said that the Government has failed to uphold the rule of law and that this case too should “be treated like any other land dispute matter.’ They also stated that “a decision in favour of either party will lead to communal disharmony and tensions.” The activists are alleging that the Allahabad High Court’s decision was a “political one without any grounds based on facts or law”, in a sense challenging the found...