Tag: Bengaluru Idgah Maidan

[ad_1] New Delhi: Karnataka Waqf Board's opposition to use of Bengaluru's Idgah Maidan for Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations reached the Supreme Court today, where two judges differed with each other, so a three-judge bench is hearing it to possibly end the deadlock by the evening. Since the festival is tomorrow and day after, an urgent hearing was requested and granted.The state government — which can give permission for setting up festival pandals — had argued that it could be heard the day after tomorrow."No religious event from any other community has been held in this property," the board argued. "This property has been declared as Waqf Property as per the 1954 Act," it added. "Suddenly in 2022, they say that it's disputed land and they want to hold Ganesh Chaturthi festival here," the ...