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In its order on Thursday, the court of civil judge (senior division), fast track, Ashutosh Tiwari, directed the ASI director general to constitute a five-member committee of eminent persons who are experts and well-versed in the science of archaeology, two of whom should preferably belong to the minority community.
(This story originally appeared in on Apr 09, 2021)VARANASI: A local court on Thursday allowed a survey of the entire Gyanvapi Mosque complex, adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple here, by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to find out whether the religious structure standing at the present and disputed site is a superimposition, alteration or addition, or there is structural overlapping of any kind .
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A Civil Court in Varanasi district of UP has allowed the Archaeological Survey of India to undertake a survey at the disputed site of Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi Mosque.
The Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to bear the cost of the survey.
ASI has been asked to do the survey to find if there was a
superimposition, alteration or addition or structural overlapping with/over, any other religious structure.
The development comes in a petition field by Advocate Vijay Shankar Rastogi on behalf of Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar.
The Petitioner sought a declaration that the land on which the Mosque is built belongs to the Hindus. The Court has been urged to declare that Hindus have the right to worship and reconstruct their temple on the said land.
Court permits ASI survey at Kashi Vishwanath temple site
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Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi mosque. Image Source: IANS News
Varanasi, April 8 : A Varanasi court has ordered an archaeological survey of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi mosque site.
The court, on Thursday, gave its approval for survey of Kashi Vishwanath temple and Gyanvapi Mosque complex by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The court further directed the Uttar Pradesh government to bear the cost of the survey. The ASI is likely to set up a five-member team that will visit the campus soon.
The court order came on a petition filed by a local lawyer Vijay Shankar Rastogi, who had demanded that the land entailing the Gyanvapi Mosque be restored to Hindus.
The ASI is likely to set up a five-member team that will visit the campus soon.
The court order came on a petition filed by a local lawyer Vijay Shankar Rastogi, who had demanded that the land entailing the Gyanvapi Mosque be restored to Hindus. The petition was filed in December 2019 on behalf of Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar in the court of civil judge.
The petitioner claimed that Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, in 1664, had pulled down a portion of the 2000-year-old Kashi Vishwanath temple to build the mosque in its place.
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The petitioner requested for a survey of the entire Gyanvapi compound by the ASI. He had filed the petition as what he claimed to be the next friend of Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar.