Indian court limits Muslim gatherings at mosque after Hindu idols found, lawyer says, Asia News – AsiaOne

LUCKNOW, India – A court on Monday (May 17) banned large Muslim prayer gatherings in one of north India’s highest-profile mosques after a survey team found relics of the Hindu god Shiva and other Hindu symbols there, a lawyer involved in the case said. The judge at the court in Varanasi – Hinduism’s holiest city and the site of the historic Gyanvapi mosque – ruled that Islamic gatherings there should be limited to 20 people, lawyer H. S. Jain said. The court ordered the survey of the mosque after five women – represented by Jain – sought permission to perform…