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Bihar: Influencer Mohammad Tajuddin makes derogatory video targeting Hindus, claims ‘Aurangzeb destroyed temples because Brahmins raped women inside’, dares police to arrest him

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2026

A video of Bihar resident Mohammad Tajuddin has gone viral for making inflammatory and unverified historical claims regarding Aurangzeb’s temple demolitions. Tajuddin openly challenged the police to arrest him, citing constitutional rights while expressing his ambition to contest future elections.

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Plea for additional survey at Gyanvapi complex which was rejected by court was not filed by us, clarifies advocate of the main petitioners in...

OpIndia Staff - 26 October, 2024

Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain clarified that the plea for additional survey at Gyanvapi, which was rejected by court, was not filed by a different party

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Varanasi court dismisses Hindu side’s plea for excavation and additional archaeological survey at the Gyanvapi complex

ANI - 25 October, 2024

The Court of Civil Judge (Senior Division) Fast Track Court, Varanasi on Friday dismissed the Hindu side's plea for an additional survey by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at the Gyanvapi complex.

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Uttar Pradesh: Varanasi Court orders Gyanvapi complex basement keys to be handed over to District Magistrate

OpIndia Staff - 18 January, 2024

A district court in Varanasi has directed that the keys to the "Vyas ji ka tehkhana" basement in the Gyanvapi complex be handed over to the district magistrate.

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SC allows cleaning of ‘wazukhana’ inside the disputed Gyanvapi edifice where Shivling was found, Hindu petitioners had filed a plea

OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2024

Supreme Court allowed the cleaning of the 'wazukhana' inside the disputed Gyanvapi mosque where the ‘Shivling’ was found on May 16, 2022, during a court-mandated survey.

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‘Conduct whatever surveys you want, Muslims won’t lose any mosque now’: Maulana Tauqeer Raza warns of ‘street fight’ over Gyanvapi

OpIndia Staff - 21 December, 2023

Maulana Tauqeer Raza said that Muslims have to show that they will not tolerate if any mosque is taken away from Muslims.

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Gyanvapi survey: ASI files sealed report in Varanasi court regarding the survey of the controversial site

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2023

“We submitted the report in a sealed cover in the court today. The court has fixed December 21 as the next date to look into the report,” said advocate Amit Srivastava, representing the ASI, in Varanasi. The report will be shared with the petitioners on December 21.

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ASI seeks additional time of 8 weeks to complete survey at the disputed Gyanvapi structure

OpIndia Staff - 3 September, 2023

Shubhash Nandan Chaturvedi, a lawyer for Hindu petitioners, said that the Varanasi district court gave ASI four weeks to complete its survey, the deadline for which ended on Saturday.

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“What is frivolous to you is faith to the other side”, CJI says as Muslim side’s lawyer calls Gyanvapi Shivling a ‘fountain’: Read what...

OpIndia Staff - 4 August, 2023

Supreme Court dismissed Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee's argument that allowing ASI survey of Gyanvapi site means going back in history by 500 years

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