Varanasi: A Varanasi fast-track court docket will ship its verdict on Monday on the plea searching for worship rights of the `Shivling` that the Hindu facet claimed to be discovered on the Gyanvapi mosque premises. The court docket had adjourned the matter for November 14 throughout the final listening to on November 8. The calls for of the Hindu facet on which the court docket will ship its verdict embrace permission for the speedy starting of prayer of Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar, the handing over of the complete Gyanvapi advanced to the Hindus, and banning the entry of Muslims inside the premises of the Gyanvapi advanced.
The Muslim facet is allowed to supply prayers in the premises until the matter is in court docket. The Supreme Court on November 11 prolonged its earlier order to defend the space the place the `Shivling` was acknowledged to be found at the Gyanvapi Mosque advanced throughout the court docket survey.
During the earlier hearings in the Varanasi court docket, it had refused to permit a `scientific investigation` of the purported `Shivling`. The Hindu facet had demanded carbon relationship of the construction they claimed to be a Shivling discovered inside the Gyanvapi Mosque`s wazukhana.
However, the Muslim facet stated that the construction discovered was a `fountain`. The Hindu facet had then submitted an utility in the Varanasi District Court on September 22 that sought a carbon relationship of the object they claimed to be `Shivling`.
The Hindu facet stated that they might method the Supreme Court towards the Varanasi court docket`s verdict refusing to permit a `scientific investigation` of the purported `Shivling`, claiming to be discovered on the Gyanvapi mosque premises. On September 29 listening to, the Hindu facet had demanded a scientific investigation of the `Shivling` by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and the carbon relationship of `Argha` and the space round it.
The Varanasi court docket stated, “It would not be proper to order the survey of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and by giving such order the age, nature, and structure of the said Shivling is known, even this does not imply the possibility of a just solution”.
Advocate Vishnu Jain, representing the facet in the Gyanvapi case, “Court has rejected our demand of seeking carbon dating. We`ll move to Supreme Court against this order and challenge it there. I cannot announce the date as of now, but we`ll soon challenge this order in Supreme Court.”
Another lawyer of the Hindu facet Madan Mohan Yadav stated, “Though the court has rejected the demand of seeking carbon dating, the option of going to the High Court is available and the Hindu side will place their point before the High Court as well.”
Referring to the order of May 17 of the Supreme Court, the Varanasi Court had stated that “If the alleged Shivling is damaged by taking samples, then it will be in violation of the order of the Supreme Court”. “If the Shivling is damaged, the religious sentiments of the general public can also get hurt”, the Varanasi Court had stated.
Carbon relationship is a scientific course of that ascertains the age of an archaeological object or archaeological finds.After listening to either side` arguments, the court docket had reserved the order in the Gyanvapi Mosque-Shringar Gauri case.
On May 20, the Supreme Court had ordered the switch of the case associated to worship at Gyanvapi mosque from the civil choose to the District Judge, Varanasi. Akhlaq Ahmed, representing the Muslim facet had stated that the plea by the Hindu facet is just not maintainable as it’s towards the order of the Supreme Court that acknowledged defending the construction (which the Muslim facet claims to be a fountain and the Hindu facet claims to be a Shivling).
“We responded to the application on carbon dating. Stone does not have the capacity to absorb carbon. The Supreme Court in its May 17 order, according to which, the object that the commission found, had to be protected. The order of the SC will prevail, so the object cannot be opened. According to the Hindu side, the process will be scientific, even if it is so, there will be tampering with the object. Chemicals will be used for the test. We will take action based on the order by the court on October 14,” Ahmed stated.
Another lawyer representing the Muslim facet, Tohid Khan had stated, “The court will deliver its verdict on whether the application seeking carbon dating is acceptable or should be rejected. The structure is a fountain and not Shivling. The fountain can still be made operational.”
