Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque committee has gone to the Supreme Courtroom, difficult a Excessive Courtroom order that gave a go forward to a “scientific survey” of the mosque complicated. The listening to will probably be held tomorrow. The order by the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom earlier at this time mentioned a survey by the Archaeological Survey of India was warranted within the curiosity of justice. Earlier, the Supreme Courtroom had barred any survey contained in the mosque complicated.
The mosque’s ‘wazukhana’ — the place a construction that the petitioners claimed was a ‘shivling’ — won’t be inside the ambit of the recent survey consistent with the Supreme Courtroom order.
The Excessive Courtroom at this time rejected a plea by the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee, which had challenged the decrease courtroom order for a survey.
The Excessive Courtroom directed ASI to “discover out” whether or not the “current construction” has been constructed over a “pre-existing construction of a Hindu temple” — a declare made by the petitioners within the case.
The Hindu petitioners contend {that a} temple existed earlier on the website and it was demolished within the seventeenth Century on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Solely a survey, with excavation if vital, can set up this, they’ve mentioned. Â
The survey by the Archaeological Survey of India had began on July 24 following the decrease courtroom’s orders. However inside hours it was placed on maintain by the Supreme Courtroom when the mosque committee approached it, arguing that any digging would possibly carry down the 1000-year-old construction.
The committee had additionally argued that any such survey is in violation of present legal guidelines round non secular locations.
The Excessive Courtroom’s nod for the survey got here after an extended wait — the choose had put it on maintain until the modality was clear and assurance on condition that the mosque won’t be broken.
Whereas giving the decision at this time, the choose mentioned the decrease courtroom’s order was correct and there’s no want for interference. Â
There may be additionally no motive to not imagine that the ASI’s assurance that the survey won’t trigger any harm to the construction, the courtroom mentioned, asserting that no digging needs to be executed on the mosque premises.
