Mathura court moved on Krishna Janmabhoomi

• The cruel and fanatical Hindu-hating Islamic invaders demolished thousands of Hindu temples and built mosques in their places as per historical facts. Still, the Governments so far have done nothing to return the land to Hindus even in last 73 years after the Independence. On the contrary, the Government enacted legislation to ensure that Hindus do not get the land back.
• The Government should enable this case to be heard in fast-track court and try to give the Shrikrushna Janmabhoomi back to Hindus.
• It is a matter of shame that Hindus have to file such a petition for their just rights in a Hindu-majority country. Only Hindu Rashtra is essential so that Hindus can live with pride.

New Delhi – Srikrishna Virajman on 25th September filed a civil suit in a Mathura court seeking ownership over entire 13.37 acres of Krishna Janmabhumi land and removal of Shahi Idgah Masjid. The plaintiff is described as ‘Bhagwan SriKrishna Virjman at Katra Keshav Dev Khewat, Mauja Mathura Bazaar City” who moved the civil suit through next friend Ranjana Agnihotri and accompanied by six other devotees.

• After filing the suit, advocates Hari Shankar Jain and Vishnu Shankar Jain told TOI, “this suit is being filed for removal of encroachment and superstructure illegally raised by Committee of Management of alleged Trust Masjid Idgah with the consent of Sunni Central Board of Waqf on land Khewat No.255 at Katra Keshav Dev, city Mathura belonging to deity Shree Krishna Virajman.”
• After giving the disputed land to Hindus for construction of Ram Temple and a separate five acres for construction of a mosque in Ayodhya on November 9, last year, the SC had shut the door for fresh litigation to alter status quo of sites such as those in Kashi and Mathura, which have also seen discord over worship.
• Mindful of the bar imposed by the 1991 law, a Hindu group through Vishnu Shankar Jain has already challenged the validity of the legislation so far as it bars Hindu devotees from reclaiming the land which belonged to it and on which temples existed prior to their demolition by Muslim rulers. But, the SC in Ayodhya case had said that courts cannot correct historical wrongs.
• The fresh suit filed by Srikrishna Virajman through next friend Ranjana Agnihotri said, “UP Sunni Waqf Board, Trust Masjid Idgah or any member of the Muslim community have no interest or right in the property of Katra Keshav Dev over an area measuring 13.37 acres and entire land vest in the deity Bhagwan Shree Krishn Virajman.”
• Detailing the history of the place by quoting historian Jadu Nath Sarkar, the plaintiffs said, “In 1669-70, Aurangzeb got partly demolished Shree Krishna Temple at the birth site of Lord Krishna situated at Katra Keshavdev and a structure was erected which was termed as Idgah Mosque. A hundred years later, Marathas won the battle of Govardhan and became the ruler of the entire area of Agra and Mathura. Marathas restored and renovated the birthplace temple of Lord Shree Krishna at Katra Keshavdev after removing the so-called structure of the mosque.”
• The suit stated that Marathas declared the land of Agra and Mathura as Nazul land and the British continued treating the land in the same manner after annexing Mathura in 1803. In the year 1815, British auctioned the 13.37 acres of land and it was purchased by Raja Patnimal of Banaras, who became the owner of the land. In 1921, a civil court had dismissed a suit by Muslims laying claim over the land.
• In February 1944, heirs of Raja Patni Mal sold the 13.37 acres of land to Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, Goswami Ganesh Dutt and Bhiken Lalji Aattrey for Rs.13,400, which was paid by Jugal Kishore Birla. Latter created a Trust in March 1951 specifically mentioning that the entire 13.37 acres of land will vest in the Trust and it will construct a glorious temple.
• But, what would come in the way of the suit being adjudicated is the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, which had exempted litigation on ownership over disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid litigation but barred any other court from entertaining litigation that would alter the status quo of a religious place as existed in 1947.

(This Act is doing injustice with 100 crore Hindus. Modi Government should withdraw such unjust Acts and legislate an Act which would facilitate the return of lands of Kashi, Mathura and other premises usurped by Islamic invaders. This is a unanimous demand of Hindus. – Editor) 

The Act said, “In providing a guarantee for the preservation of the religious character of places of public worship as they existed on 15th August 1947 and against the conversion of places of public worship, Parliament determined that independence from colonial rule furnishes a constitutional basis for healing the injustices of the past by providing the confidence to every religious community that their places of worship will be preserved and that their character will not be altered.”

“Non-retrogression is a foundational feature of the fundamental constitutional principles of which secularism is a core component. The Places of Worship Act is thus a legislative intervention which preserves non-retrogression as an essential feature of our secular values,” a five-judge bench headed by then CJI Ranjan Gogoi had ruled.