Supreme Court dismisses Waseem Rizwi’s plea searching for elimination of some Quran verses

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL which sought deletion of 26 verses from the Quran alleging that they violate the regulation of the land and promote extremism, Bar & Bench reported. The bench additionally imposed prices of Rs. 50,000 on the petitioner Syed Waseem Rizvi, a former chairperson of Shia Central Board of Waqf, Uttar Pradesh, the report additional added.
Rizvi, in his PIL, alleged that the 26 verses “promote violence”, and weren’t a part of the unique Quran, however had been added in later revisions, and may therefore be faraway from the holy guide.

Rizvi’s transfer to file the petition within the high courtroom drew an enormous backlash from a number of Islamic clerics and organisations in Uttar Pradesh.

After the plea was filed on March 11, there have been protests towards Rizvi in a number of cities, and police complaints –– together with one by a BJP chief in Jammu and Kashmir, and one in Bareilly in UP –– have been lodged towards him.
While Rizvi typically takes positions on contentious points that align with the BJP, leaders from the ruling social gathering, together with former Union Minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, have condemned his newest transfer. “I strongly object to and condemn Wasim Rizvi’s petition seeking removal of 26 verses from Quran. It is my party’s stand that saying absurd things about any religious texts, including Quran, is a highly condemnable act,” Hussain mentioned.