During the earlier hearing of this petition, the Court was told that the authorities had illegally given "permanent licence" to some establishments and religious places to use loudspeakers.
The right wing organisations have been claiming that the Jamia mosque was an Anjaneya Temple, which Tipu Sultan had destroyed to build a mosque in its place.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said, "we shouldn't bring out a new matter daily. Why should we escalate dispute? We have devotion towards Gyanvapi and we are doing something as per that, it is alright. But why look for a Shivling in every masjid?"
The petition said that in the medieval era Muslim invaders had defiled many Hindu, Jain, Sikh, and Buddhist temples and demolished them, and built mosques.
The opposition parties, particularly those in Uttar Pradesh, are unable to take a stand on the issue. If they back the Hindu petitioners, they will lose out on Muslim support, and if they side with the Muslims, they will be dubbed as 'anti-Hindu'.
The matter came into the limelight when Aligarh's RTI activist Keshav Dev Sharma filed an RTI in the Municipal Corporation regarding Jama Masjid. In response to this, the Municipal Corporation said that the 300-year-old Jama Masjid located in Upperkot has been constructed in a public place.
Owaisi said PM Modi should break silence & talk about Supreme Court's 1991 order.
District court has ordered that locks should be broken if the keys are not available to access certain areas of the complex for the survey.
There has been a protest over the survey of several deities, including Shringar Gauri, located in Varanasi's Kashi Vishwanath temple premises and the Gyanvapi Masjid complex.
After hearing the plea this morning to change the court commissioner, Varanasi's Civil Judge (Senior Division) Ravi Kumar Diwakar reserved his order for May 9.
MNS chief Raj Thackeray in a two-page letter said, "I appeal to all Hindus that tomorrow, the 4th of May, if you hear the loudspeakers blaring the azan; in those very places, play the Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeakers! That's when they will realise, the hindrance of these loudspeakers."
Addressing a mega public rally in Aurangabad, Raj Thackeray said that he won’t be responsible for what all happens after the May 3 deadline to remove the loudspeakers from the mosques.
They also appealed to youth from the community not to play loud DJ music during the Eid al-Fitr celebration on May 2.
After the video came to police knowledge, Sohail was arrested and a case under section 153A has been registered against him.
Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted news of the devastating bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, saying it also wounded another 43 people, many of them students.
Meanwhile, Dakshina Kannada Commissionerate has ordered to maintain the status quo of structure till further orders.
Mosques must take permission for loudspeakers, urges Muslim body Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind in Maharashtra
Srinagar police informed all citizens that attempts to disrupt peace will be viewed very seriously and the strictest action under provisions of the law will be taken against all those who get involved in such illegal activities.
In Bengaluru alone, about 250 mosques have received such notices and the mosque authorities have started installing devices that keeps the sound within the permissible level, sources said.
These outfits started protesting against speakers outside mosques, ever since Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray demanded that loudspeakers of mosques be shut down.
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