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Representatives of the Muslim assemblage connected Friday (May 15, 2026) said that they would attack the Supreme Court to situation the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s bid declaring the disputed Bhojshala temple-Kamal Maula mosque tract successful Dhar arsenic a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Saraswati.
Members of the Hindu assemblage celebrated the verdict by the High Court’s Indore Bench, which granted them implicit worship rights, adjacent arsenic strict information arrangements remained successful spot successful Dhar and adjacent areas. The territory medication had already imposed preventive measures nether Section 163 of the BNSS.
Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing the Hindu side, said the tribunal accepted the Bhojshala analyzable arsenic a centre of learning isolated from a temple of goddess Saraswati.
Terming the verdict “historic”, Mr. Jain said, “The astir important happening is that the tribunal has granted america the close to worship present and asked the authorities to oversee its management. The tribunal has besides impugned the ASI bid of April 7, 2003, allowing namaz there. Now lone puja volition beryllium done there.”
“The tribunal has accepted our halfway request and each of our arguments and declared the quality of the operation to beryllium that of a Hindu temple,” helium said, speaking to reporters extracurricular the High Court premises successful Indore.
Following the long-awaited verdict, Dhar metropolis Qazi Waqar Sadiq said that the Muslim broadside would reappraisal the court’s determination and attack the Supreme Court with it.
“We volition reappraisal the High Court’s determination that has been fixed against our argument. We respect the court, but we volition decidedly situation it successful the Supreme Court. We volition reason it successful the archetypal proceeding itself,” Mr. Sadiq said.
Mr. Sadiq, however, appeared to beryllium rejecting the court’s proposal that the Muslim broadside tin attack the State authorities for an alternate portion of onshore for a mosque, portion saying that the thought had “ended successful the Supreme Court” during the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi and Babri mosque quality verdict.
“The Muslim broadside was fixed onshore then, but the aforesaid attack should not beryllium taken repeatedly. This time, a antithetic assemblage should beryllium asked to instrumentality onshore elsewhere. We support our claim,” helium said.
“Our arguments were presented successful a bully mode by our lawyers [senior advocate] Salman Khurshid sahab and Shobha Menon,” helium said.
Advocate Noor Mohammad Sheikh, besides representing the Muslim side, said that pursuing the High Court’s order, namaz could nary longer beryllium offered astatine the tract present until the Supreme Court intervened.
“There is nary question of namaz for now, arsenic the High Court has not fixed rights to the Muslim side,” helium said.
Arshad Mansuri, different advocator representing the Muslim side, said that the tribunal “only considered the facts of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)”.
“Our facts were not considered astatine all. But we volition not accidental that the tribunal did not perceive our side, but we are not astatine each satisfied with the decision. This determination is besides constitutionally incorrect arsenic it was a civilian substance decided nether the purview of the constitution,” helium said.
Meanwhile, much than 1,200 information unit person been deployed successful Dhar municipality and adjacent areas, on with aggregate companies of the Rapid Action Force (RAF), Special Armed Force (SAF) and the Quick Reaction Force (QRF), turning the country surrounding the analyzable into a high-security zone.
Indore (Rural) Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Manoj Kumar Singh told The Hindu that information measures had been enactment successful spot a time successful advance, including the deployment of anti-riot vehicles and equipment.
“Everything has been calm truthful far. We are besides holding dialogues with representatives of some communities to support peace. More than 40 officers of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and inspector fertile person been deployed connected the ground, portion elder officers are overseeing the arrangements,” helium said.
Mr. Singh added that the constabulary had dispersed immoderate members of the Hindu assemblage who were raising celebratory slogans.
The High Court’s verdict came aft proceeding 5 writ and 3 involution petitions.
The Muslim and Hindu communities person been engaged successful a prolonged ineligible tussle implicit the disputed tract since mid 1990s, with tensions flaring connected aggregate occasions.
In 2003, the ASI issued an bid allowing Hindus to worship astatine the analyzable connected Tuesdays and Basant Panchami, portion Muslims were permitted to connection prayers connected Fridays. However, communal tensions repeatedly surfaced, particularly erstwhile Basant Panchani coincided with Friday prayers.
