Team Clarion
UTTARKASHI — Claiming that a 75-year-old mosque located in this Uttarakhand city has been built on unregistered land, members of some Hindutva outfits have demanded its demolition. But authorities have rejected their demand claiming that the mosque was legal.
An official in the Uttarakhand police, citing district administration records, said the mosque was built on registered land.
Amit Srivastava, Superintendent of Police (SP), Uttarkashi, said: “Some right-wing organisations had given a memorandum to the administration, in which they stated that it is an illegal mosque. According to the district administration, it is built on registered land, and it is not illegal. It is registered in the name of four people. The administration has conveyed the same to the right-wing organisations.”
“We will not allow anybody to take the law into their hands”, Srivastava was quoted as saying in a Hindustan Times report on Wednesday.
An umbrella group of right-wing organisations — Sanyukt Sanatan Dharam Rakshak Sangh — submitted a memorandum to Uttarkashi District Magistrate Meharban Singh Bisht on Monday demanding the demolition.
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