Following the communal violence in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, Justice Chandrachud’s oral remarks on the 1991 Act during the ...

As long as Indian courts are allowed to defy the spirit of the Places of Worship Act, 1991, bloodshed will follow the ...

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) survey of these mosques, over petitions filed by Hindu bodies, has fuelled an ...

The petition was filed by Hindu Sena president Vushnu Gupta, who claimed a Shiva temple had existed at the site of the dargah ...

Flooding driven by heavy rains in southern Thailand has killed nine people and displaced more than 13,000, officials said on ...

Jairam Ramesh says oral observations made by ex-CJI D.Y. Chandrachud in May 2022 seem to have opened a "Pandora's box" ...

What is the Places of Worship Act, and What does the Supreme Court of India have to do with Sambhal and other such cases?

Congress leader highlights relevance of 1991 Places of Worship Act due to recent oral observations by Chief Justice ...

The Supreme Court must close the Pandora’s Box that it has opened as speedily as the Sambhal court heard the petition and ...

The petition in Sambhal is similar to ones made in the cases of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque and Mathura’s Shahi Idgah. At the heart of the matter is the interpretation of the Places of Worship Act, 199 ...

A court is hearing a plea by a Hindu outfit seeking permission to worship at Jama Masjid Shamsi, which they claim was a temple. The Muslim defendants disputed the claim, citing the mosque's 850-year ...