New Delhi: In a current improvement, a Varanasi courtroom on Thursday (April 8, 2021) gave permission to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a survey of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi mosque advanced.
The courtroom directed the Director General of ASI to kind an knowledgeable panel of 5 members comprising two members ideally from the minority neighborhood. Following the courtroom order, the ASI is predicted to quickly kind a committee to conduct the survey.
The Gyanvapi masjid shares a boundary wall with the Kashi Vishwanath mandir. The petition filed by lawyer Vijay Shankar Rastogi claims that the mosque was constructed by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb after demolishing a portion of the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
Here’s how the Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi mosque advanced dispute unfolded.
The first petition in the case was filed in 1991 in Varanasi civil courtroom by Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar. The petitioner demanded to declare the whole Gyanvapi advanced as part of the Kashi temple.
The petitioner, additional, sought Muslims to be evicted from the advanced space and demolition of the mosque. The petition talked about a Hindu temple to be constructed on the premises.
In 1998, the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee moved the Allahabad High Court stating that the mandir-masjid land dispute can’t be adjudicated by a civil courtroom because it was barred by the regulation. The excessive courtroom stayed the proceedings in the decrease courtroom the place the matter remained pending for 22 years.
In December 2019, petitioner Vijay Shankar Rastogi filed a plea on behalf of Swayambhu Jyotirlinga Bhagwan Vishweshwar in Varanasi district courtroom, in search of an archeological survey of the Gyanvapi mosque advanced.
In January 2020, the Masjid panel opposed the plea demanding ASI survey of the whole Gyanvapi advanced.
Rastogi approached the decrease courtroom with a petition in February 2020 requesting the listening to be resumed.
Since the Ayodhya Babri masjid case verdict in 2019, the Hindu neighborhood now believes that Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi mosque dispute too might be solved.
