FATEHPUR (UP): Amid tight security, a portion of the 185-year-old Noori Masjid in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehpur district was demolished by local authorities on Tuesday claiming it was illegal and obstructing the widening of the Banda-Bahraich Highway.
The mosque’s management committee chief, however, claimed that the Noori Masjid in Lalauli town was constructed in 1839 while the road around it came up only in 1956, and said they have already moved the Allahabad High Court which will take up the petition on December 12.
The Public Works Department (PWD) had, in connection with the widening of Banda-Bahraich Highway No. 13, given a notice to remove some parts of the mosque due to their “illegal construction” but the mosque management did not implement it, according to officials.
