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Gyanvapi radar archaeological survey ordered The directive comes on a 30-year-old petition that claimed a temple existed under the mosque at the site A Varanasi court has asked the central government to conduct an archaeological survey of the Gyanvapi area through radar technology, the directive coming on a 30-year-old petition that claimed a temple existed under the mosque at the site. A lawyer for the Muslim side said the order on a controversy that carries echoes of the Ayodhya dispute would be challenged in high court. The Gyanvapi mosque shares a compound with the Kashi Vishwanath temple. Sangh parivar outfits claim that Mughal emperor Aurangzeb had got a part of the Kashi Vishwanath temple demolished in 1669 and had the mosque built over a well that contained a Shivalinga. ....
Varanasi: The district court in Varanasi gave its verdict on Thursday allowing the archaeological survey of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi mosque complex. In its order, the court of civil judge (senior division), fast track, Ashutosh Tiwai directed the Director General of Archaeological Survey of India to get a comprehensive archaeological survey of the entire Gyanvapi compound done. The court directed the ASI DG to constitute a five-member committee of eminent persons who are experts and well-versed in the science of archaeology, two of which should preferably belong to the minority community. In its order, the court also directed the DG to appoint an eminent and highly-experienced person, who can be regarded as expert in the science of archaeology, to act as observer. “Such person should preferably be a scholarly personality and established academician of any central university,” it said. ....
Synopsis In its order on Thursday, the court of civil judge (senior division), fast track, Ashutosh Tiwari, directed the ASI director general to constitute a five-member committee of eminent persons who are experts and well-versed in the science of archaeology, two of whom should preferably belong to the minority community. (This story originally appeared in on Apr 09, 2021)VARANASI: A local court on Thursday allowed a survey of the entire Gyanvapi Mosque complex, adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple here, by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to find out whether the religious structure standing at the present and disputed site is a superimposition, alteration or addition, or there is structural overlapping of any kind . ....
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 Law17 hours ago 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. ....
New Delhi, India – A court in India’s Uttar Pradesh state has passed an order related to a dispute over a centuries-old mosque and a temple situated next to each other – a case reminiscent of a similar and bloody dispute in another temple town, controversially resolved in 2019. The court in Varanasi town on Thursday directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to find out whether the centuries-old Gyanvapi Mosque “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”, effectively meaning the adjacent Kashi Vishwanath Temple. ....