SC asks Centre to give its opinion on Places of Worship Act ’91

New Delhi: Supreme Court granted the Centre two weeks’ time to respond and make its stand clear before it to a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the 1991 Places of Worship Act.
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Uday Umesh Lalit, asked the Central government to file its reply within two weeks.
“You (Centre) file your reply to the petitions. We will hear the case after that,” the CJI Lalit said, and fixed the matter for further hearing to November 14.
The Top Court asked the Centre to file its reply, after hearing a batch of petitions, including that of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
The Supreme Court asked the Centre to file its reply in the case, as the Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, senior law officer representing the Union government, told the Top Court that given the sensitivity of the care and the parameters involved in it, we need time.
The Supreme Court, which was hearing the batch or petitions challenging the validity of the 1991 Places of Worship Act, today, after asking the Centre to make its stand clear in the issue, fixed the matter for further hearing to November 14.