Why UP court order asking ASI to survey Kashi-Gyanvapi mosque complex is legally unsound
The Allahabad High Court last month had reserved orders on the maintainability of the suit filed by the Hindu side. 3 hours ago The picture shows structures of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple found around the Gyanvapi mosque when the area was dug open. | Scroll Staff
On Thursday, a civil court in Uttar Pradesh asked the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey
at the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi to determine if a temple existed at the site before the construction.
The mosque lies right next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
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DNA Special: Understanding the Kashi Vishwanath Temple and Gyanvapi Mosque dispute
In this case, Hindu parties say that the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb demolished the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in 1669 and built the Gyan Vapi Masjid.
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Updated: Apr 10, 2021, 06:27 AM IST
A Uttar Pradesh court on Thursday allowed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to survey the disputed premises in Varanasi that is claimed by both the Kashi Vishwanath Temple and Gyanvapi Mosque complex. The court directed the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government to bear the cost of the survey. The directive was given by Varanasi First Track Court judge Ashutosh Tiwari.
In this case, Hindu parties say that the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb demolished the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in 1669 and built the Gyan Vapi Masjid. That is, the place where the mosque is now located was earlier a real Jyotirlinga dedicated to Lord Shiva. But later Aurangzeb demolished the temple. And built a mosque.
Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque case petitioner receives life threat, gets security
Harihar Pandey said that when he reached home after a fast-track court order in the case on Thursday, he received a call from an unknown number.
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VARANASI: A petitioner in the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque dispute case has allegedly received a life threat, after which he has been provided security, police said on Saturday. Harihar Pandey has been provided security on the orders of Varanasi Police Commissioner A Satish Ganesh and they are investigating the case, a police officer said.
Pandey said when he reached home after a fast-track court order in the case on Thursday, he received a call from an unknown number.
It was a warm noon in December 1886 when Dr Eugen Hultzsch, the acclaimed German Indologist and later epigraphist to the Madras government, decided to visit the Mamallapuram group of monuments. Fascinated by the rich edifices that the chisels and sharp eyes of the Pallava craftsman had created, Hultzsch was walking around the five rathas campus. Little did he realise that destiny was waiting to introduce him to a person who would eventually turn out to be his intellectual companion.
On the same day, Valaiyathur S Venkayya, a sharp 22-year-old gentleman well versed in many languages, had travelled to Mamallapuram to feed his appetite for Indian history. Venkayya, a graduate in physics who was then teaching in a school in Kanchipuram, was obviously interested when he saw Hultzsch copying the inscriptions. It would have been wonderful to watch the two bright minds with mutual appreciation for their scholarship and interests getting together. Venkayya, a scholar in his attitude and ap