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The Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque analyzable successful Varanasi. (File Photo)
A VARANASI tribunal connected Friday dismissed a plea filed by the Hindu petitioners seeking a caller survey by excavation of the Gyanvapi Mosque analyzable by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), specifically focusing connected areas not antecedently surveyed by the ASI.
On October 16, the tribunal had reserved its bid successful this regard, pursuing the completion of arguments. Advocate Akhlaq Ahmad, representing the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee, said they (Muslim petitioners) had objected to the application. Ahmad added that they argued determination was nary request for different survey astatine present, and immoderate unresolved aspects from the anterior survey could beryllium considered aboriginal if necessary.
“We argued connected the ground of ineligible points and the tribunal rejected the petition,” Ahmad said, adding that they are yet to reappraisal the bid successful full.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for the Hindu petitioners, Vijay Shankar Rastogi, told mediapersons that they would situation the determination successful a higher court, claiming that a “comprehensive technological survey was needed”.
In its bid connected Friday, the tribunal said, “Since it has been already directed by the High Court of Allahabad and the Supreme Court that nary excavation oregon demolition volition beryllium done astatine the tract of the survey and the full survey volition beryllium conducted by non-invasive methodology, the supplication of the plaintiff cannot beryllium allowed.” “The exertion is hereby rejected,” it added.
Secretary of Anjuman Intezamiya Masajid Committee Muhammad Yaseen welcomed the judgment. In December past year, the ASI submitted its study connected a technological survey it had undertaken astatine the Gyanvapi mosque analyzable successful a Varanasi tribunal that had ordered it to ascertain whether the mosque was “constructed implicit a pre-existing operation of a Hindu temple”.
On July 21, 2023, the Varanasi tribunal ordered a technological survey of the analyzable to ascertain whether the mosque was “constructed implicit a pre-existing operation of a Hindu temple”. District and Sessions Judge A K Vishvesha directed the ASI to “undertake technological investigation/survey/excavation astatine the spot successful question i.e. colony crippled fig 9130 (Gyanvapi mosque)”. The survey was to exclude the wazukhana area, which was sealed connected the Supreme Court’s order.
However, the survey was halted aft the mosque committee approached the Allahabad High Court, and aboriginal the Supreme Court, seeking a enactment connected the exercise. Both courts subsequently cleared the decks for the survey and it was resumed.
— WITH PTI INPUTS
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