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May 27, 2022

Watch | Gyanvapi Petitioner Seeta Sahu on Why and How Her Plea Came to Be

One of the five women who moved a plea asking that Hindus should be allowed to pray at the Varanasi mosque site speaks to The Wire.

Dispute over the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi was brought to the forefront after a court ordered a survey in a suit filed by five Hindu women claiming that the mosque houses Hindu deities and that Hindus should be allowed to pray at the site.

As courts continue to hear the Gyanvapi mosque case, The Wire asks one of the petitioners some tough questions about why and how this petition came to be.

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