A team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is conducting a scientific survey to determine whether the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, was built on top of a temple. The ASI s report, including videos and photographs of the proceedings, must be submitted to the court by August 4.
The Supreme Court had, in May this year, ordered that the Allahabad High Court directions for a scientific investigation of the disputed object by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), be deferred for the time being.
Rakhi Singh, the lead plaintiff in the Gyanvapi Masjid case fighting for the daily right to worship at the Varanasi mosque, has written a letter to President Droupadi Murmu seeking permission for euthanasia. She has also accused the other four women petitioners and their lawyer of defaming her
Justice JJ Munir found that what the plaintiffs simply sought to enforce a subsisting right of worship which they had been exercising after August 15, 1947.