ASI will provide a scientific survey report before the Varanasi court today in the Gyanvapi case

Today, November 17, the Archaeological examination of India (ASI), which carried out a scientific examination of the controversial Gyanvapi mosque grounds in Varanasi, was probably going to present the findings before district court.
The claimants’ attorneys claim that ASI has finished the poll, which lasted for more than a month. On Friday, the report can be delivered under a sealed cover to the district court. The ASI requested an extension, claiming that the work was incomplete, despite the court’s original directive for them to provide the report by September.
After that, the court gave the ASI until November 17 to turn in the report. Ground penetrating radar and other scientific tools were used by the ASI during the survey, which began on August 4, to determine what was underneath the Gyanvapi grounds.

The ASI team also examined the building’s outside and interior walls, the basement, and other areas outside of the “wuzukhana,” which is where Muslims wash their hands before praying.

After the Muslim plaintiffs’ plea to postpone the Varanasi court’s decision for an ASI assessment was denied by the Allahabad High Court, the survey of the Gyanvapi mosque premises got underway. The Kashi Vishwanath temple grounds have been a source of dispute between the two groups for many years, but with the high court’s favorable ruling in the Ram Janmabhoomi case, there has been a resurgence of calls for the saffron organizations to reclaim the land.

The Hindu petitioners claimed that in the seventeenth century, the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb had destroyed a portion of the temple. The Muslim side argued that the mosque had existed before to Aurangzeb’s reign and that property documents had also made reference to it.

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In order to ascertain if the Gyanvapi mosque complex, which is situated close to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple, was built over an earlier temple, the ASI is conducting a thorough investigation of the area.

After the Allahabad High Court affirmed a Varanasi district court judgment and said that the action is required in the interest of justice and would benefit both the Hindu and Muslim sides, the ASI survey got underway in July.

In opposition to the ruling of the high court, the mosque committee had also petitioned the Supreme Court. On August 4, the Supreme Court declined to suspend the High Court’s ruling on the ASI survey. However, the highest court instructed the ASI to refrain from any intrusive actions during the survey in its decision.

The deadline for the ASI to finish the survey of the mosque complex is November 6 (Monday). District Government Counsel Mishra, meantime, said that in September, a plea was filed in the court of Civil Judge (Senior Division) Nitesh Kumar Sinha about the transfer of basement keys at the Gyanvapi mosque complex to the district magistrate of Varanasi.