NEW DELHI: In an enormous setback to the Sunni Central Waqf Board and Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, the Allahabad Excessive Court docket on Tuesday rejected all 5 petitions filed by them difficult the maintainability of a civil swimsuit pending earlier than a Varanasi court docket searching for the restoration of a temple on the website the place the Gyanvapi mosque exists.
The petitions filed by the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee (AIMC) and the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board had additional challenged a Varanasi court docket order of April 8, 2021, to conduct a complete survey of the Gyanvapi mosque. In line with the Hindu aspect plaintiff, the Gyanvapi mosque is part of the temple. On December 8, Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal had reserved judgment after listening to the counsels of the petitioners and the respondent.
Allahabad Excessive Court docket rejects petitions of Sunni Central Waqf Board and Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee relating to the possession between Gyanvapi Mosque and Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi
— ANI (@ANI) December 19, 2023
The Allahabad Excessive Court docket order got here a day after the Varanasi district court docket granted another week to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to submit a scientific survey report of the Gyanvapi mosque advanced. This got here after ASI requested for one week to file the survey report. The court docket fastened December 18 as the following date of listening to within the matter.
The Court docket had earlier requested it to submit its survey report by November 17. Later, ASI was granted time till November 28 to file its report. The survey has been held for 100 days, throughout which the ASI has requested for a number of extensions. The survey had concluded virtually a month in the past and the ASI had sought additional time to file its report.
The final extension was on November 18, when the ASI requested for one more 15 days. The court docket had allowed it 10 days. The ASI had been surveying since August four on the mosque premises. It leaves out the Wuzukhana space, which has been sealed by the orders of the Supreme Court docket.
On November 2, the ASI instructed the court docket it had “accomplished” the survey however would want some extra time to compile the report, together with the main points of the gear used within the survey. The court docket had granted extra time until November 17 for submitting the doc. The survey was ordered by a Varanasi court docket on July 21, following a petition by 4 girls who sought permission to wish on the Shringar Gauri Shrine which is behind the western wall of the temple.
Earlier, in August this 12 months, the Allahabad Excessive Court docket allowed the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey of the Gyanvapi mosque advanced in Varanasi.
