Firefighters, with the assistance of locals, managed to bring the fire under control and prevented it from spreading further. The fire is claimed to have started due to an electric short circuit.
The issue surfaced after RTI activist Keshav Dev Sharma filed an RTI with the Municipal Corporation of Aligarh about Jama Masjid. In response, the Municipal Corporation stated that the 300-year-old Jama Masjid in Upperkot was built on public property.
Calling the netizens 'low IQ Sanghis', Arfa Khanum Sherwani claimed that Muslim women could go inside the Masjid, break their fast and offer namaz there.
A temporary stay, restraining the demolition of a Hindu temple-like structure that has been found underneath the Juma Masjid built on the outskirts of Mangaluru in Karnataka has been passed by Karnataka court