Court Revives Dormant Dispute, asks ASI to Survey Gyanvapi Mosque Next to Kashi Vishwanath Temple
Though a 1991 law bars the conversion of places of worship, the court has ordered the formation of a five-member committee to identify any traces of a pre-existing temple at the mosque site.
Gyanvapi mosque. Photo: Kabir Agarwal/The Wire
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New Delhi:Â A Varanasi civil court on Thursday ordered the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to ‘survey’ the Gyanvapi Mosque located next to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple after petitioners representing the temple claimed that the land on which the mosque stood actually belonged to them.
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Varanasi court orders ASI survey of Gyanvapi mosque adjacent to Kashi Vishwanath temple
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April 09, 2021 06:24 IST
Form 5-member panel, with two persons from minority community, for the task, it directs ASI. Sunni Central Waqf Board to challenge order
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A photo of Kashi Vishwanath temple (left) and Gyanvapi Mosque (right) taken in 2012.
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Form 5-member panel, with two persons from minority community, for the task, it directs ASI. Sunni Central Waqf Board to challenge order
A local court in Varanasi on Thursday directed the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque compound adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple to find out whether it was a “superimposition, alteration or addition or there is structural overlapping of any kind, with or over, any other religious structure”.
After the civil court in Varanasi on Thursday gave its approval for survey of Kashi Vishwanath temple and Gyanvapi Mosque complex by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the Sunni Central Waqf Board has decided to challenge it. The chairman of Sunni Board Zufar Ahmad Faruqi said that the order of the Civil Judge, Varanasi, ordering a survey by the Archaeological Survey of India would be challenged before the High Court. The order was issued after a petition was filed by a local lawyer VS Rastogi who had demanded that the land entailing the Gyanvapi Mosque be restored to Hindus. The petitioner claimed that Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1664 pulled down a portion of the 2000-year-old Kashi Vishwanath temple to build the mosque in its place. The management committee of Gyanvapi mosque had opposed the petition.
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