Why in news
The Supreme Court directed the Centre and Madhya Pradesh government to strictly comply with its July 14 interim order on alternate namaz arrangements at Bhojshala, after Muslim petitioners said the alternate site was nearly 2 km away, not the 900 m the state claimed.
Why for UPSC
The Places of Worship Act's exemptions are a high-value, frequently misunderstood polity topic and Assertion-Reasoning format is well suited to testing whether the causal statutory link, not just the standalone facts, is understood.
Prelims summary
Section 4 of the Places of Worship Act, 1991 exempts AMASR Act-protected monuments from its religious-character freeze - this exemption is why Bhojshala, already ASI-protected pre-1991, remains open to survey-based relitigation.