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Gyanvapi Mosque: Petitioner seeks euthanasia approval from Prez citing harassment, says ‘entire Hindu society has. . .’
- Rakhi Singh is one of the four petitioners who have filed a case in the court of the civil judge (senior division) Varanasi in August 2021, seeking the right to daily worship at Maa Shringar Gauri Sthal in the Gyanvapi mosque complex.
Gyanvapi Mosque case main plaintiff, Rakhi SIngh has written to President Droupadi Murmu alleging that her fellow petitioners have spread false propaganda against her which has caused mental stress. Rakhi Singh has reportedly sought permission and is considering euthanasia.
A Hindustan Times report stated that Rakhi Singh, the main petitioner for right of daily worship inside the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi. has in her letter said that she was “considering euthanasia” due to mental pressure.
Rakhi Singh is one of the four petitioners who have filed a case in the court of the civil judge (senior division) Varanasi in August 2021, seeking the right to daily worship at Maa Shringar Gauri Sthal in the Gyanvapi mosque complex.
“In the case, my associates, including Lakshmi Devi, Sita Sahu, Manju Vyas, Rekha Pathak, along with (senior) advocate Harishankar Jain, his son advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain and their few colleagues, did a false propaganda and defamed me and my uncle and aunt Jitendra Singh Visen and Kiran Singh in May 2022,” Hindustan Times quoted the letter written to President Droupadi Murmu by Gyanvapi mosque petitioner Rakhi Singh.
Rakhi Singh in her letter alleged that her fellow petitioners spread a rumour that she was withdrawing the case, while “neither any such statement or information was issued from my side nor my uncle Jitendra Singh Visen, pleader on my behalf in the said case, issued any such information.”
On 4 June, Rakhi Singh's uncle one of the main litigants from the Hindu side Jitendra Singh Visen has announced that he and his family are withdrawing from all cases related to the Gynavapi issue due to alleged "harassment".
"I and my family (wife Kiran Singh and niece Rakhi Singh) are withdrawing from all Gyanvapi-related cases that we had filed in the interest of the country and religion in various courts," Visen, who heads the Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh, said in a statement.
“Thus, the entire Hindu society has been raised against me and my family by creating a confusion about us in the entire country due to which I and the entire family of Visenji have come under a lot of mental pressure,” she wrote.
“Therefore, you are requested to grant me the permission of euthanasia and pave the way to get rid of this immense mental pain and agony so that I can attain ultimate peace by sleeping eternally. I will wait for your reply till 9th June 2023 at 9:00 am,” the letter said.
“If no order comes from you, then whatever decision will be taken after that will be my own,” the letter concluded.
Notably, this is not the first time Rakhi Singh had publicly aired difefrences between her and the three other plaintiffs. In September 2022, she had also opposed a petition for carbon dating of a disputed structure found inside the Gyanvapi mosque. The Hindu side claims its a shivling while the Muslim side says its part of an ablution tank.
On 23 May, the Varanasi district court ordered that all seven cases of the same nature related to the Shringar Gauri-Gyanvapi case be consolidated and heard together, with Shringar Gauri-Gyanvapi case as the leading case.
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First Published:8 Jun 2023, 04:29 PM IST
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