In several places in India, claims that mosques were built on the former site of Hindu temples have stoked communal tensions.

Muslims have been using the Shahi Jama Masjid Mosque in Sambhal for almost 500 years, but Hindu groups claim it is the site ...

Following the communal violence in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, Justice Chandrachud’s oral remarks on the 1991 Act during the ...

Authorities closed schools and suspended internet services in a northern Indian city on Monday, officials said, a day after ...

Over 30 years since the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, another mosque in Uttar Pradesh finds itself at the ...

Claims that a mosque was built over a temple stoked tensions, but India’s top court shares blame, say lawyers.

Sambhal mosque dispute highlights historical, religious, and legal complexities surrounding the Places of Worship Act in ...

Sambhal’s spiritual history—marked by overlapping faiths—has become the crux of the current ideological and legal struggle.

Locals allege that four persons died in police firing. But the police have claimed that shots were fired by a mob protesting ...

A lower court's order of a survey at the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid of Sambhal that triggered massive violence in which ...

Enacted in 1991, Places of Worship act was meant to preserve the religious character of places of worship as they stood on August 15, 1947. But surveying of Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal has raised ...