Varanasi (PTI): A 30-member team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) entered the Gyanvapi complex on Monday morning to carry out a scientific...
Five Hindu women have moved the suit before the Varanasi court seeking the right to worship Maa Shringar Gauri on the outer wall of the mosque complex.
Allahabad High Court last week directed authorities to conduct a scientific survey on a structure found in the mosque that Hindus claim to be a ‘Shivling’.
The matter was adjourned as the concerned judge would not sit in the fast-track court today. On May 20, the SC had transferred the case from the Civil Judge to the District Judge in Varanasi.
During the previous hearing that took place in October, the Varanasi court had refused to allow a 'scientific investigation' of the purported 'Shivling' found on mosque premises.
One of the Hindu petitioners also opposed the plea saying any such examination of the object would in all likelihood cause 'irreparable damage to it, rendering it unworthy of worship'.
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