Limitation act, temples, and crimes..

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Simplistically put, under the limitation act, if you do not raise voice against something you are not agreeable to within a specified time frame, then it is deemed as everything is hunky dory. Time frame however differs for different things. So if a spouse disappears for seven years in India, that becomes equivalent to a death. Likewise, if a property is in adverse possession, for specified number of years, the rights to and claims on it are lost forever. I do not know how the rights will be if the properties are conquered and taken over like Russia is doing now in Ukraine. We have ancient temples, which were destroyed and mosques set up in their place. I am inclined to believe possibility of their destruction to set up a place of worship is unlikely. More likely that most of them were destroyed due to natural calamity or even the cannons of war. Once deserted it became easier for others to set up their places of worship. The crucial word there is...DESERTED. Whether out of fear or because the structure was lost, the premises of temples was deserted. That brings in limitation act. So should the application for reinstatement be entertained. I think not. The present generation of Muslims did not commit the crime of demolishing the temple. They have their belief in the place of worship that is there right now. Hindus have stopped praying there for ages. Merely because there was an ancient Hindu temple there does not mean the right to worship there exists. Like that, every place will have history, some of which would be decipherable, other not. How far are we willing to go. Gyanvaipi temple was not built during the lifetime of Rama or Shiva to hanker for it so much. What changed after taking over Ayodhya premises? Gang rapes are still around. Murders, drugs, corruption are still around. In fact COVID came after Ayodhya was surrendered to Hindus. We are in no better position than we were before we got that Ayodhya temple premises. How then can we claim we have our god's blessings? But I digress.. Here, I said we cannot punish children for the acts of their ancestors. Our faith in Gyanvapi is lost anyway. At least let them follow their faith instead of feeling hurt for no fault of theirs. And can we Hindus be sure that we did not demolish a Buddhist structure to build Gyanvapi temple? History always offers incomplete information, so should we come up with fights based on it in present era? I don't agree with it. Despite my view that parents and grandparents of drug peddlers, rapists, etc., should be punished as should be their descendents for a few generations. I confine the punishments to 2 generations up and 4 generations down as the intensity of feelings whatever they may be does die out by then. But bringing up issues for which there existed no feelings is the best way to irritate some people and ensure hatred persists. Your thoughts.