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A court in Varanasi has directed the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a “detailed scientific survey” -– including excavations, wherever necessary — to determine if the Gyanvapi mosque located next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple is built upon a temple.
The mosque’s ‘wazukhana’, where a structure claimed by Hindu litigants to be a ‘shivling’ exists, will not be part of the survey -– following an earlier Supreme Court order protecting that spot in the complex.
District judge A K Vishvesh directed the ASI to submit a report to the court by August 4, along with videos and photographs of survey proceedings.
Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing the Hindu side in the Gyanvapi mosque case, told ANI , “I have been informed that my application has been approved and the court has directed to conduct an ASI survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex, excluding the Wazu tank which has been sealed.”
