Satya Prakash
New Delhi, 7 June
A fresh petition in the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenged the validity of certain provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, on the ground that it defined the illegal occupation of ancient and historical places of worship and pilgrimages by “barbaric foreign invaders”.
This is the eighth petition against the controversial law that created a retrospective cut-off date and declared that the character of places of worship would be retained on August 15, 1947. Earlier, Vishwa Bhadra Pujari Purohit Mahasangh, Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, Subharnian Swamy, Rudra Vikram Singh, Chandra Shekhar, Devkinandan Thakur and Swami Jitendranand had moved the apex court against various provisions of the Act.
The Supreme Court, in March 2021, had issued notice to the Center on certain petitions challenging the validity of certain provisions of the 1991 Act.
Petitioner Anil Kabotra, a retired Army officer, argued that the 1991 law had “arbitrary and irrational retrospective cut-off date of August 15, 1947 to preserve the character of places of worship or shrines against encroachment by radicals”. ” Created. Barbaric invaders and law breakers “.
Kobatra has challenged the constitutional validity of Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the 1991 Act on the ground that Parliament had “violated its legislative power” by omitting the measure of judicial review – a basic feature of the Constitution and the provisions in force that invoked secularism. violated the principles of ,
fire in sc campus
New Delhi: A fire broke out at a branch of UCO Bank in the Scheduled Caste premises on Tuesday morning, but no casualty was reported, sources said. At least six fire tenders rushed to the spot and doused the fire by 10 am, sources said. tns