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. Also Read 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.