Legal Research and Reform for Better India
2.3.2 Section 1: Bare Act Provision: 1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*. (3) The provisions of
2.3.4 Section 3: Bare Act provisions: 3. Bar of conversion of places of worship.—No person shall convert any place of worship of any religious denomination or any section thereof into a place of worship of a different section of the same religious denomination or of
Section 5 explicitly provides that nothing in the Places of Worship Act applies to the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site or related legal proceedings.
2.3.3 Section 2: Bare Act Provisions: 2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “commencement of this Act” means the commencement of this Act on the 11th day of July, 1991; (b) “conversion”, with its grammatical variations, includes alteration or change of whatever
Laws of limitation like the Limitation Act, 1963 in India, prescribe time limits for initiating legal proceedings. Once these limits are crossed, the right to challenge is often lost.
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw an increase in communal clashes, fueled by radicalized terrorism from one side and demands for reclaiming or affirming the historical religious identity of various sites from the other.
The debate emphasized that without this legislation, historical grievances could reignite, leading to communal discord.
On the basis of mis-interpretation of the statute, still many communal incidences are happening in country, special in the form of stone-pelting.