Suit seeks removal of mosque in Mathura

A civil go well with was filed earlier than the court docket of Civil Judge, senior division Mathura on behalf of kid deity, Bhagwan Shri Krishna Virajman on Friday in search of removing of the Shahi Idgah Masjid which stands adjoining to the Sri Krishna temple complicated at Mathura, and claiming possession of your entire 13.37 acres land which is believed to be birthplace of Lord Krishna.

The go well with comes 10 months after a case filed on behalf of kid deity Ram Lalla succeeded earlier than the Supreme Court in relation to the disputed website at Ayodhya, with the highest court docket ruling in favour of Ram Lalla on November 9, 2019.

The go well with has been filed by means of the following buddy (a authorized time period for an individual who represents somebody instantly unable to keep up a go well with) of the deity, Ranjana Agnihotri, an advocate and a resident of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. Six different devotees are additionally plaintiffs to the go well with.

“A suit filed before Mathura civil court on behalf of Bhagwan Shri Krishna Virajman seeks a declaration that the entire 13.37 acres of land be vested in the deity and also for cancellation of collusive compromise decree,” stated advocate for the plaintiff, Vishnu Shankar Jain.

Jain’s reference is to a settlement entered into between the Shri Krishna Janamsthan Seva Sansthan which is the governing physique of the temple complicated and the Committee of Management of Trust of Shahi Idgah in 1968 based mostly on which the dispute relating to the land was settled.

The UP Sunni Central Waqf Board, the Idgah Trust, Shri Krishna Janmasthan Seva Sansthan and one other belief Shree Krishna Janambhoomi Trust have been made defendants to the go well with which claims that the Idgah Trust encroached upon the land belonging to Shri Krishna Janamasthan Trust and the deity and erected a brilliant construction on the place.

The birthplace of Lord Krishna lies beneath the construction raised by the belief, it added.

As per the go well with, the current historical past of the temple complicated may be traced again to 1618, when Raja Veer Singh Deva Bundela of Orchha constructed a temple devoted to Lord Shri Krishna on the latter’s beginning place by spending the equal of ₹33 lakh. This temple was partly demolished in 1669 on the orders of Mughal ruler Aurangzeb and the Idgah mosque was constructed. After Marathas got here to energy in 1770, the temple was restored, it stated.

Later the realm fell into the fingers of East India Company in 1803, which auctioned it in 1815. It was bought by Raja Patni Mal of Banaras.

In 1944, Rai Kishan Das and Rai Anand Das, the heirs of Raja Patni Mal, executed a sale deed on consideration of ₹13,400 (paid by Jugal Kishore Birla) and the possession of 13.37 acres was transferred in favour of Mahamana Madan Mohan Malviya, Goswami Ganesh Dutt and Bhikhen Lalji Aattrey.

“Name of Sri Krishna Janambhoomi Trust is entered as owner and right has been granted to offer ‘namaz’ on Eid at the Eidgah site which is owned by us. Muslims should voluntarily give away their claim for amicable solution,” Gopeshwar Chaturvedi, Shri Krishna Janambhoomi Trust member stated.

Tanveer Ahmed, Secretary at Shahi Masjid Idgah in Mathura stated there isn’t any dispute. “Mathura is land of peace, those in politics are not in favour of peace and are raising the issue.”