Gyanvapi mosque survey: The ASI has to submit the report back to the district court docket by August 4.
New Delhi:
A survey of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque by the Archaeological Survey of India will start Monday morning, the district Justice of the Peace has mentioned. The survey – ordered by an area court docket on Friday – will start early within the morning. It’ll lengthen to all areas besides the sealed “wuzukhana” the place a construction that Hindu litigants claimed to be a ‘Shivling’ – a relic of Lord Shiva — was found throughout a survey in 2022. The ASI has to submit the report back to the district court docket by August 4.
The court docket’s order got here in response to a petition by a bunch of ladies who declare the mosque was constructed over a Hindu temple. The ladies declare that historic idols of Hindu gods and goddesses are situated contained in the mosque and solely a scientific survey can reveal the reality.
In Could, the Supreme Court docket had deferred the “scientific survey”, together with carbon courting, of a “Shivling” that was mentioned to have been discovered on the Gyanvapi mosque advanced throughout a videographic survey performed final 12 months. The court docket had additionally ordered that the ‘wazukhana’ space be sealed.
Earlier, the Allahabad Excessive Court docket directed the ASI to conduct a scientific survey of the construction that Hindu petitioners claimed is a “Shivling”. The Gyanvapi mosque authorities had mentioned the construction is part of a fountain within the “wazukhana”, the place individuals carry out ablutions earlier than providing namaz.
In September final 12 months, the Varanasi district choose had dismissed a problem by the mosque committee that argued that the case by the ladies has no authorized standing.
Situated in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, the Gyanvapi mosque is without doubt one of the a number of mosques the proper wing believes have been constructed on the ruins of Hindu temples.
It was one of many three temple-mosque rows, in addition to Ayodhya and Mathura, which the BJP raised within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.
