Mathura: Krishna Janmabhoomi/ Shahi Idgah Masjid

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2020: Srikrishna Virajman files suit

Dhananjay Mahapatra, September 26, 2020: The Times of India

Spurred by the success of the 1989 civil suit filed by Ram Lalla Virajman in getting ownership of the disputed Ayodhya site in 2019, Srikrishna Virajman filed a civil suit in a Mathura court on Friday seeking ownership of the entire 13.37 acres of Krishna Janmabhoomi land and removal of Shahi Idgah Masjid.

The plaintiff, described as ‘Bhagwan Srikrishna Virajman at Katra Keshav Dev Khewat, Mauja Mathura Bazaar City’, moved the civil suit through next friend Ranjana Agnihotri and six other devotees.

After filing the suit, advocates Hari Shankar Jain and Vishnu Shankar Jain told TOI, “This suit is being filed for removal of encroachment and superstructure illegally raised by committee of management of alleged Trust Masjid Idgah with the consent of Sunni Central Board of Waqf on land Khewat No.255 at Katra Keshav Dev, city Mathura belonging to deity Srikrishna Virajman.”

The disputed site, believed by many to be the birthplace of Lord Krishna, figures along with Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya and Gyanvapi Mosque next to Varanasi’s Vishwanath temple, among sites VHP has asked for to be restored to Hindus.

But what will come in the way of the suit being adjudicated is the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, which while exempting litigation for ownership of the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land, barred courts from entertaining litigation that would alter the status quo of a religious place as it existed in 1947.

Also, after the Ayodhya verdict on November 9 last year, the Supreme Court had shut the door for fresh litigation to alter the status quo of sites such as those in Kashi and Mathura. However, the Hindu claimant for the Mathura site has, through Vishnu Shankar Jain, challenged in the SC the validity of the 1991 law for barring Hindu deities from reclaiming land which belonged to them and on which temples existed prior to their demolition by Muslim rulers.

The fresh suit also said, “UP Sunni Waqf Board, Trust Masjid Idgah or any member of Muslim community have no interest or right in the property of Katra Keshav Dev over an area measuring 13.37 acres and entire land vests in the deity Bhagwan Srikrishna Virajman.”