Allahabad Excessive Court docket Order On Gyanvapi Mosque Survey Seemingly At this time: 10 Info

1. The ASI survey was ordered by the Varanasi district court docket on July 21, primarily based on a petition by 4 ladies who claimed it was the one option to decide whether or not the landmark mosque was constructed after razing a Hindu temple. The mosque is positioned proper subsequent to the enduring Kashi Vishwanath Temple. 

2. The ASI had began a survey on July 24, but it surely was stayed inside hours by the Supreme Court docket after the mosque committee approached it. The mosque committee had argued that the construction is over a thousand years previous and any digging may destabilise it, resulting in its collapse. The committee had additionally argued that any such survey is in violation of present legal guidelines round spiritual locations. 

3. The centre had, nevertheless, assured the Supreme Court docket that the survey is not going to alter the construction in any manner and confused that “not a brick has been eliminated neither is it deliberate”. Solicitor Common of India Tushar Mehta had mentioned the survey plan consists of solely measurement, pictures and radar research.

4. The court docket allowed the petitioners to strategy the Allahabad Excessive Court docket to problem the order. After listening to the matter for 2 days, July 26 and 27, the excessive court docket had reserved its judgment for at this time.

5. The Gyanvapi mosque had hit headlines in 2021 after a bunch of girls approached a decrease court docket in Varanasi for permission to worship Hindu deities within the Gyanvapi advanced on all days of the 12 months. 

6. In April final 12 months, the court docket ordered a video survey of the advanced primarily based on this petition. When the survey was performed in Might, a construction was found that the petitioners claimed was a ‘shivling’. 

7. The mosque administration committee, nevertheless, mentioned the construction was a part of a fountain within the ‘wazukhana’, which is an space crammed with water the place folks wash their fingers and toes earlier than praying. Preserving the sensitivity of the difficulty in thoughts, the Supreme Court docket had ordered the sealing of the ‘shivling’ space the identical month. 

8. In September final 12 months, the Varanasi district decide, to whom the case had been transferred by the Supreme Court docket, dismissed a problem by the mosque committee, which argued that the ladies’s request to worship Hindu deities contained in the advanced premises was not maintainable. 

9. In Might this 12 months, the Allahabad Excessive Court docket additionally dismissed the committee’s petition on maintainability. 

10. Situated in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, the Gyanvapi mosque is one in every of a number of mosques that some imagine have been constructed on the ruins of Hindu temples. It was one of many three temple-mosque disputes, in addition to Ayodhya and Mathura, which the BJP had raised within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.

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