India, Dec. 5 -- The Calcutta high court on Friday declined to stop an event organised by a suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) lawmaker to lay the foundation stone for a mosque modelled on Ayodhya's Babri Masjid in Bengal's Murshidabad district, but directed the state police to take adequate steps to maintain law and order at the spot, lawyers who attended the hearing said.

Humayun Kabir, the MLA from Murshidabad's Bharatpur constituency, has announced his plan to build the mosque in the district's Beldanga area which would be modelled on the Babri Masjid demolished in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. The Beldanga area was rocked by communal violence in April this year. Central police forces are still deployed in the region on orders of the ...