Updated Apr 08, 2021 | 20:25 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi must find the courage to intervene. Many were patronizing us with talk about closure when we expressed our disappointment about Babri: Asaduddin Owaisi No person has any right whatsoever to change the nature of a masjid
Key Highlights It is clear that the people who committed the egregious criminal act of demolishing Babri Masjid have been emboldened ASI is only likely to perpetrate a fraud & history will be repeated as was done in the case of Babri The legality of this order is doubtful
New Delhi: Hours after the Varanasi district court passed an order allowing a survey of Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi mosque complex by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi called the legality of this order “doubtful”.
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.
Hindu Temple Under Varanasi s Gyanvapi Mosque? Court Orders Survey Hindu Temple Under Varanasi s Gyanvapi Mosque? Court Orders Survey The court said, the prime purpose of the Archaeological Survey shall be to find out whether the religious structure standing at present at the disputed site is a superimposition, alteration or addition or there is a structural overlapping of any kind, with or over, any other religious structure .
A petition contended that Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolished an ancient temple and built the mosque.
Varanasi:
A court in Varanasi has ordered the Archaeological Survey of India to carry out a physical survey of the town s Gyanvapi Mosque, located next to the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
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.
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LUCKNOW: A Varanasi civil court on Thursday allowed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a survey at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi mosque complex.
The ASI has been asked to set up a five-member committee, comprising two from the minority communities, to conduct the survey. The court directed the Uttar Pradesh government to bear the cost of the survey so conducted.
Local lawyer Vishnu Shankar Rastogi had filed a plea demanding restoration of the land entailing Gyanvapi Mosque to Hindus claiming that Mughal emperor Aurangzeb had pulled down a portion of 2,000-year-old Kashi Vishwanath Temple to build the mosque there in 1644. Rastogi had filed the petition to claim the land for Hindus on behalf of Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar.