India, Aug. 13 -- KANPUR In less than a week, the Fatehpur mausoleum has turned into a centre of communal confrontation after a body called the Math-Mandir Sangharsh Samiti, unheard of until last Thursday, claimed that the structure was originally a Thakurdwara temple. The controversy comes against the backdrop of a property dispute between a Thakur family and a Muslim healer.

The property, measuring 10 bighas and 17 biswas, as per land records, includes within it the mausoleum of Nawab Abdus Samad.

On Monday, members of Hindu right-wing outfits allegedly vandalised the structure, seeking to offer prayers there and claiming that a temple had previously existed at the site.

The Samiti had set a deadline of August 11 to "rightfully recla...