With regard to the Places of Worship Act, 1991, the Hindu parties have stated that the Court has to consider what the religious character of the place in question was on August 15, 1947, whether it was a place of Hindu or Muslim worship, and whether erecting a super structure can convert a temple into a mosque or vice versa.
“In Section 4 of the P.W. Act the Parliament has purposely used the word “religious character”, to mean that the Temple, Mosque, Church, Gurudwara etc. should have been constructed according to tenets of the religion without encroaching upon the land of another faith,” reads the reply.
Source: Barandbench
