Supreme Court Steps in As Hindu Muslim Tensions Rise over Mosque in Sambhal I Ajmer I Barkha Dutt

Amid heightened tensions in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal after violent clashes over a centuries-old mosque led to the deaths of five people, a Rajasthan court has accepted a petition claiming that the Ajmer Sharif Dargah, the revered shrine of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti, is actually a Shiva temple. As incidents of this nature have increased, the effectiveness of the Places of Worship Act, Introduced in 1991 to prevent the kind of communal flare-ups seen during the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, has also come under question. Barkha Dutt speaks to, Sanjay Hegde, Ashwani Shah, and Zafar Sareshwala