Mathura Court Permits Lawsuit Asking for Removal of Shahi Idgah Mosque

According to a report by PTI, a court in Mathura on Thursday authorized a case that sought to remove the Shahi Idgah Masjid from the “Krishna Janmabhoomi,” which translates to “the birthplace of Lord Krishna.” The complaint contends that the Shahi Idgah Masjid was constructed in the same location as the birthplace of Lord Krishna and so must be removed from the grounds of the Katra Keshav Dev temple in order to satisfy the demands of the case. 

Earlier on, nine individual petitions were submitted to the courts in Mathura by various Hindu organizations demanding that the mosque be demolished. 

The petitioners had requested the court, in one of the multiple pleas that they had filed before the court, to demolish the Idgah that had been built on the trust’s land and declare it to be illegal, and then hand over the entire plot of land to Lord Shri Krishna Virajman, who was the de-facto owner of the land. In addition to this, the petition requested that an investigation report be compiled after the excavation of the contentious site under the supervision of the court. 

On Wednesday, a court in Mathura granted a petition to close the Shahi Idgah Mosque, which is located close to the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple. The petition that Mahendra Pratap Singh submitted to have Shahi Idgah Masjid closed will have its next hearing on July 1, according to the judge who presided over the case. 

On the grounds of the 13.37-acre Katra Keshav Dev temple is where the mosque is claimed to have been constructed between the years 1669 and 1670 on the instructions of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. 

On May 12, a panel of the Allahabad High Court in Lucknow issued an order mandating that all of the matters pertaining to the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi and Shahi Idgah Masjid dispute be resolved by the Mathura court within the next four months. The ruling was issued by the High Court in response to the petition that Narayani Sena national president Manish Yadav had submitted. 

This new information emerged during a hearing that was being held in the lawsuit involving the Kashi Vishwanath temple and the Gyanvapi Mosque complex. A group of women has petitioned a Varanasi court in order to be granted permission to worship daily in front of the idols that are situated on the exterior walls of the mosque, which is located in close proximity to the world-famous Kashi Vishwanath temple. A study that was overseen by the court only recently discovered a “shivling” within the facility.