A Hindu group secured a court docket order to carry out prayers contained in the premises of a centuries-old mosque within the Indian metropolis of Varanasi on Thursday, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi consecrated a controversial temple on one other website the place a mosque as soon as stood.

A decrease court docket in Varanasi ordered the southern basement of the Gyanvapi mosque be handed over to Hindu devotees for his or her prayers. Some different components of the mosque stay sealed on the court docket’s earlier orders.