New Delhi: The Supreme Courtroom is scheduled to listen to on Friday six pleas difficult the validity of sure provisions of the Locations of Worship (Particular Provisions) Act, 1991. The petitions are listed for listening to earlier than a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Aniruddha Bose. The apex courtroom will look at the petitions filed by retired military officer Anil Kabotra, advocates Chandra Shekhar and Rudra Vikram Singh, Devkinandan Thakur Ji, Swami Jeetendranand Saraswati, and former Bharatiya Janata Get together MP Chintamani Malviya.
Kabotra has challenged the constitutional validity of sections 2, 3, and 4 of the 1991 Act contending that they violate the ideas of secularism.
“By making the impugned Act, Centre has arbitrarily created an irrational retrospective deadline, declared that character of locations of worship shall be maintained because it was on August 15, 1947, and no go well with or continuing shall lie in courtroom in respect of disputes towards encroachment completed by barbaric invaders and lawbreakers and such continuing shall stand abated,” stated the plea, filed by means of advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey.
The 1991 provision is an Act to ban conversion of anywhere of worship and to offer for the upkeep of the spiritual character of anywhere of worship because it existed on August 15, 1947, and for issues linked therewith or incidental thereto.
A number of different pleas, together with the one filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, difficult the validity of sure provisions of the 1991 Act is already pending within the apex courtroom.
The highest courtroom had earlier sought the Centre’s response to Upadhya’s plea difficult the validity of sure provisions of the 1991 legislation, which prohibit the submitting of a lawsuit to reclaim a spot of worship or search a change in its character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947.
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