The ASI has been granted time until October 6, 2023, to finish the survey and submit its report. (File)
Varanasi:
The subsequent listening to on the petitions difficult the maintainability of the civil swimsuit filed with regard to the possession of the Varanasi Gyanvapi advanced and the validity of the Allahabad Excessive Court docket ordering a survey by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), is scheduled for September 18.
Chief Justice Pritinkar Diwakar on Tuesday heard the petitions filed by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee and Sunni Central Waqf Board.
Each the Muslim and Hindu sides introduced their arguments earlier than the court docket scheduled the subsequent listening to on the matter.
A Varanasi court docket on Friday granted 4 weeks’ extra time to the ASI to finish the scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque advanced.
The ASI was granted time until October 6, 2023, to finish the survey and submit its report.
Earlier, in August this yr, the Allahabad Excessive Court docket allowed the ASI to conduct a survey of the Gyanvapi mosque advanced.
It dismissed a plea by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, difficult the ASI survey of the mosque advanced, adjoining to Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.
The scientific survey of the advanced, excluding ‘wuzukhana‘, started on August 4, following the Allahabad Excessive Court docket’s order, which allowed the ASI to conduct the survey to find out if the Seventeenth-century mosque was constructed over a pre-existing construction of a Hindu temple.
The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee moved the Supreme Court docket difficult the Allahabad Excessive Court docket order. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court docket declined to remain the scientific survey of the advanced by the ASI.
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