Survey Shrikrushna Janmabhoomi ! : Order of the Mathura Civil Court

The order reads survey should be completed and the report to be submitted by 20^th January 2023

Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) – Justice Sonika Verma of the Mathura Civil Court has ordered a survey of the site of Shrikrushna Janmabhoomi. Hindu Sena National President Mr Vishnu Gupta and Vice-President Mr Surjitsingh Yadav had filed an appeal. The Court has told the Archaeological Department to begin the survey from 2^nd January 2023. And the report of the survey is to be presented to the court by 20^th January 2023. A similar order had been given at Kashi’s Gyanvapi and during the Survey a Shivalinga and numerous Hindu religious symbols were discovered there.

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1. There is an Idgah Mosque on the land of Shrikrushna Janmabhoomi. The Mosque stands on the site of the original Krushna Janmabhoomi, which is Kans’ prison where Shrikrushna was born. Aurangzeb demolished the original Shrikrushna Temple and built the Shahi Idgah Mosque in its place. The appeal asks that this, 13.37 acres of land be handed back to the Hindus. This petition had been dismissed earlier, thereafter an appeal was filed again on which the Court has ordered that a survey be conducted of the mosque. This appeal also says that the 1968 agreement between Shrikrushna Janmasthan Seva Sangh and Shahi Idgah Mosque about this land is illegal.

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Mathura Court has directed court authority to conduct survey of disputed land in a suit filed by Hindu Sena.

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2. In the earlier petition the prayer was that the Mosque that stands on the site should be removed and Shrikrushna devotees be allowed to worship there. The Court had at that time dismissed the petition saying that under the 1991 Places of worship act the status of the place as on 15^th August 1947 was to be maintained. The Court had also added that if this petition was allowed then numerous devotees will make numerous petitions in the Courts.