Gyanvapi Mosque Case: The appliance was moved in Could this 12 months by 4 ladies worshippers.
New Delhi:
The Varanasi District Courtroom as we speak allowed a “scientific survey” of all the Gyanvapi mosque premises by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), besides the barricaded ‘wazukhana’ the place a construction claimed by Hindu litigants to be a ‘shivling’ exists, permitting a petition by 4 ladies worshippers who wish to discover out as as to whether the Mosque had been constructed over a pre-existing construction of the Hindu temple. The court docket requested the ASI to submit its scientific report by August 4.
The order is more likely to be challenged in increased courts. The Supreme Courtroom final 12 months directed the sealing of the ‘wazukhana’ space.
“I’ve been knowledgeable that my utility has been authorized and the court docket has directed to conduct an ASI survey of the Gyanvapi mosque advanced, excluding the Wazu tank which has been sealed,” Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing the petitioners within the case, mentioned, based on information company ANI.
The appliance was moved in Could this 12 months by 4 ladies worshippers, who claimed the Gyanvapi Mosque, positioned subsequent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple, had indicators of an historic Hindu temple. The appliance said that Swayambhu Jyotirlinga existed on the website for lakhs of years, nonetheless, the identical was destroyed/broken a number of instances by “Muslim Invaders who had hatred towards infidels and idol worshippers starting with the assault of Mahmud Ghazni in 1017 AD”.
The appliance additional states that “probably the most fanatic and merciless Mughal Emperors, Aurangzeb” issued Farman (decree) in 1669 to demolish the Temple of Lord Adivisheshwar on the website in query and in pursuance of his command, his subordinates carried out the order by demolishing the aforesaid Temple.
Mr Jain earlier mentioned he argued that the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque dispute will be resolved solely by an archaeological investigation of all the mosque advanced.
The Mosque committee had opposed the plea, saying an ASI survey might harm the advanced.
The Supreme Courtroom had on Could 19 deferred the “scientific survey”, together with carbon courting, of a “Shivling” mentioned to have been discovered on the Gyanvapi mosque advanced throughout a videographic survey final 12 months.
Earlier this 12 months, the mosque committee suffered an enormous setback in one of many predominant instances involving the Gyanvapi Mosque, because the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom dismissed a plea that requested it to scrap a civil go well with being heard in a neighborhood court docket.
The lawsuit filed by a gaggle of Hindu ladies worshippers looking for the best to wish within the Gyanvapi mosque advanced in Varanasi was legitimate, the court docket dominated, permitting the case to proceed within the Varanasi District Courtroom.
