Babri isn’t a one-off incident; several other mosques in India have been demolished too

By Rayhan Mirza While the Babri Masjid demolition episode may be one of the most defining moments in the history of modern-day India, what is perhaps lesser known is that it isn’t alone as several mosques around India other than the Babri Masjid have been demolished too.
Outlook India reports that “in the months after Partition, some 50,000 mosques across present-day Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh were destroyed, burnt, or converted into temples and gurudwaras—homes, even.” Though the partition era may have seen the destruction of mosques on a large scale, the mosques that are expounded here comprise only of the most prominent examples that were demolished in the post-Babri era.
Aapo Aap Mosque, Patiala District, Punjab Like umpteen mosques across Punjab that continue to be illegally occupied as houses, the 200-year-old mosque of Aapo Aap was no different. The Punjab Wakf Board filed a case in the Civil Court of Nabha in 1968 and won against the illegal occupant Jatinder Kumar Bansal.
The illegal occupant then challenged the court order but lost again. However, years passed by and the Punjab Wakf board could not take control of the mosque.