The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) held an emergency virtual meeting on Tuesday amid the ongoing row over Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque, where allegedly a shivling was found during a survey on Monday.

Sources said as the matter is being heard in court, the Board’s legal team will provide all necessary assistance to the Muslim side and they will try to reach people with facts through pamphlets and books, so that people are not misled.

The source further added that the Board would like to know the position of the central government and other political parties on the Places of Worship Act 1991.

Then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao had introduced a law on places of worship in 1991. The law prohibits the conversion or change of religious outlook of places of worship that existed before August 15, 1947. Anyone attempting this faces a fine and an imprisonment between one to three years.

The AIMPLB will hold another meeting on Wednesday to present their views in detail.