Trust to build mosque announced

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Boardformed a 15-member-trust on Wednesday to look after the construction of a mosque on five acres of land allotted by the Supreme Court that paved the way for a Ram temple in Ayodhya town in a landmark verdict last year. Zufar Ahmed Faruqi, chairman the board – which was the main Muslim litigant in the title suit — said the trust was named as Indo Islamic Cultural Foundation, which will ensure the development of the allocated land in Dhannipur village in Ayodhya, which the board accepted in February 2020.

The development came on a day state police sounded high alert in all districts.