LUCKNOW: Indian court on Monday banned large Muslim prayer gatherings inone of north India’s highest-profile mosques after a survey team foundrelics of the Hindu god Shiva and other Hindu symbols there, a lawyerinvolved in the case said.
The judge at the court in Varanasi — Hinduism’s holiest city and the siteof the historic Gyanvapi mosque — ruled that Islamic gatherings thereshould be limited to 20 people, lawyer H S Jain said.
The court ordered the survey of the mosque after five women — representedby Jain — sought permission to perform Hindu rituals in one part of it,saying a Hindu temple once stood on the site.
