Gyanvapi Petitioner's Request For Euthanasia, Citing Harassment

 Gyanvapi Mosque Case: In August 2021, Rakhi Singh and four other ladies filed the initial complaint to obtain authorization to worship Hindu idols they asserted to be located within the Gyanvapi mosque compound.

Gyanvapi Mosque: Rakhi Singh is one of the petitioners in the Varanasi Gyanvapi Mosque case.

Lucknow: In what appears to be the outcome of a quarrel between the litigants, a petitioner in the Varanasi Gyanvapi Mosque case has written to the President of India demanding euthanasia, days after declaring her withdrawal from the lawsuit.

One of the five women petitioners, Rakhi Singh, stated in her letter that she would wait for President Droupadi Murmu's response until 9 am on June 9 (Friday) to urge that Hindu prayers and rituals be permitted in the mosque complex. She stated that she will make a decision after that on her own.

She described in the letter how her fellow petitioners had harassed and persecuted her.

Rakhi Singh is a relative of Jitendra Singh Visen, one of the primary Hindu petitioners in the case, who declared on Saturday that he and his family were dropping out of all proceedings involving the Gyanvapi controversy because of alleged "harassment."

Visen, the head of the Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh, issued a statement saying, "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 nation and religion in various courts.

He claimed that the matter was his "biggest mistake" and that he had been harassed by several people, including Hindu petitioners.

I'm abandoning this because I can no longer fight this war for 'dharma' in this situation, which is caused by my limited strength and resources. Only those who play tricks in the name of religion belong in our society, he claimed.

In August 2021, Rakhi Singh and four other ladies filed the initial lawsuit to obtain authorization to worship Hindu idols they asserted to be located within the Gyanvapi mosque complex.

But there are now disagreements among the applicants.

Numerous Hindu women are permitted to visit the compound once a year to symbolically worship the goddess Shringar Gauri thanks to an earlier legal decree.

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The mosque committee asked the Allahabad High Court to dismiss the Hindu petitioners' lawsuit, but it was denied last month.