The whitewashing of Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal comes days after the Allahabad High Court asked the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to undertake the project. The court had on ...

Uttar Pradesh Police arrested Shahi Jama Masjid president Zafar Ali for inciting violence during a mosque survey last November, which left five dead. The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday arrested ...

Zafar was arrested on Sunday in connection with the violent clashes that erupted during a court-ordered survey of the Mughal-era mosque on November 24, 2024. The arrest of Sambhal’s Shahi Jama ...

PTI photo Sambhal police on Sunday took the head of the Shahi Jama Masjid’s management committee into custody, a day before he was to travel to Lucknow to depose before the judicial commission probing ...

The work is expected to be completed within three to four days, restoring the mosque's outer walls to their former glory. Earlier on Saturday, the Secretary of Shahi Jama Masjid, Masood Farooqui ...

In 1878, the Allahabad High Court ruled that Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal had been used as a mosque for over 100 years, dismissing claims of it being a Hindu temple. The mosque committee now plans ...

The court also instructed the stenographer to use the term "disputed structure" for the Shahi Masjid ... Court was hearing a petition filed by the mosque committee opposing an Archaeological ...

Sambhal has been tense after riots broke out on November 24 last year following a survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid, a Mughal-era mosque.

An Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) team on Thursday carried out measurements and assessments ahead of the planned whitewashing and renovation work of the Shahi Jama Masjid, officials said.