Hyderabad, May 16 -- People from the Hindu community entered the Bhojshala complex in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Saturday, May 16, and began offering prayers after the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court declared the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque complex to be a temple dedicated to Goddess Saraswati, while setting aside a 2003 ASI order that had allowed Muslims to offer Friday namaz at the site.

Muslim organisations said they would challenge the verdict in the Supreme Court.

In its May 15 judgment, the division bench of Justices Vijay Kumar Shukla and Alok Awasthi held that the religious character of the ASI-protected monument indicated the existence of a Sanskrit teaching centre and a temple of Goddess Saraswat...