The Right Stand | What Is the Places of Worship Act? Sambhal & Gyanvapi Mosque Disputes | News18

The Managing Committee of the Gyanvapi Mosque has filed an intervention before the Supreme Court in the pleas challenging the validity of the Places of Worship Act 1991. It said that the consequences of the declaration sought by the petitioner that the Act was unconstitutional "are bound to be drastic."

The lead petition (Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay v. Union of India) was filed in 2020 in which the Court issued notice to the Union Government in March 2021. Later, few other similar petitions were also filed challenging the statute which seeks to preserve the status quo with respect to religious structures as they stood on August 15, 1947, and prohibits legal proceedings seeking their conversion.

In the intervention application, the Managing Committee stated that it was a key stakeholder in the legal deliberation since several suits have been filed claiming the removal of the mosque despite the bar under Sections 3 and 4 of the 1991 Act.

S. 3 of the 1991 Act expressly bars the conversion of any place of worship of any religious denomination into another place of worship of a different section of the same religious denomination or a different religious denomination all together.

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