The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to inform it under what circumstances a room in the Jharkhand assembly was allotted for offering namaz.
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Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench of Chief Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra and Justice Ananda Sen asked the government to file an affidavit in the matter.
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The matter will be heard next on May 18, the court said.
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In the PIL, it was alleged that allotment of a room for prayer to members of a community amounts to a violation of fundamental rights.
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The equal right to religion has been breached, it was alleged.
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Room TW 348 was allotted for offering Namaz in September 2021, leading to protests by the opposition BJP, which then demanded a Hanuman temple on the assembly premises.