NEW DELHI: An RTI activist filed a petition in a civil court on Wednesday claiming that Aligarh's Jama Masjid was built upon Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu temples and urged the court to declare it ...

A petition in Aligarh court alleges that Jama Masjid was built by demolishing a Shiva temple, a Buddhist stupa, and a Jain temple in the 18th century. The petitioner seeks restoration of the site ...

An indefinite curfew was imposed on the affected areas. Syed Abdullah Bukhari, Imam of the Moghul-built Jama Masjid … was arrested under the Maintenance of Internal Security. … It was one of ...

Sambhal:� A man has been arrested in connection with the violence during survey of a mosque here last year, officials said on ...

The well adjacent to Jama Masjid was also encroached and a cemented platform was built over it. Nine more wells were found separately during the search, making a total of 28 wells found so far ...

Gautam claims that one of the RTI replies from the Aligarh Municipal Corporation indicates the mosque was "built on public land without government approval." Citing this information, he has approached ...