Gyanvapi mosque survey ought to be completed utilizing a non-invasive technique, mentioned the Supreme Courtroom
New Delhi:
The Gyanvapi mosque survey by the nation’s high archaeology physique ought to be completed utilizing a “non-invasive technique”, the Supreme Courtroom mentioned immediately.
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has been given 4 weeks to submit its report back to a courtroom in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, which ordered the survey on July 21.
The mosque committee had challenged the district courtroom’s survey order within the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom. On Thursday, the excessive courtroom dismissed the request by the mosque committee, which sought to cease the district courtroom’s order directing the ASI to conduct the survey to find out if the mosque was constructed on a pre-existing temple.
The committee lastly went to the Supreme Courtroom, which heard the matter immediately.
The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee mentioned the ASI survey of the Gyanvapi mosque will go into historical past and can “reopen wounds of the previous”.
“… Historical past has taught us one thing. What occurred in December 1992, that raises suspicion and mistrust at each step,” the mosque committee’s lawyer Huzefa Ahmadi mentioned. “The ASI survey intends to enter the historical past as to what occurred 500 years in the past. It will reopen wounds of previous,” Mr Ahmadi mentioned.
“Let’s not get into the previous now,” a bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra replied.
After the Supreme Courtroom ordered the ASI to make use of a non-invasive technique in its survey, Solicitor Normal Tushar Mehta, showing for ASI and the UP authorities, promised no excavation work can be completed and no construction contained in the mosque can be harmed.
The ASI immediately resumed its scientific survey of the Gyanvapi compound. The survey started at 7 am; it stopped for 2 hours between 12 pm and a couple of pm to permit for Friday prayers, information company PTI reported.
A lot of safety personnel has been deployed by the district authorities to make sure regulation and order close to the Gyanvapi advanced.
