The Supreme Court on Friday (October 17, 2025) upheld an order of the Gujarat High Court permitting the partial demolition of the over 400-year-old Mancha Masjid complex in Ahmedabad to facilitate a road-widening project, holding that the measure was undertaken in the public interest and did not infringe upon the right to religious freedom.
A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi noted that only a portion of the vacant land and an adjoining platform were to be cleared, while the mosque’s main structure would remain
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