Varanasi: A piece of individuals from the Muslim group on Thursday staged a protest in opposition to the Varanasi court docket’s order permitting puja inside Gyanvapi Mosque complicated’s ‘Vyas Tehkhana’. The Muslim group protested after providing prayers on the Gyanvapi mosque. The protestorers whereas speaking to reporters claimed that “there isn’t a proof {that a} that the Vyas household held any land contained in the mosque complicated.”
Earlier immediately, the Masjid Intezamia Committee of Gyanvapi mosque of Varanasi filed a revision petition in Allahabad Excessive Court docket in opposition to Varanasi District Court docket’s order permitting Hindus to carry out prayers contained in the southern celler of Gyanvapi mosque.
Within the petition filed by the Mosque committee, they’ve sought a keep on Varanasi court docket order.
The plea acknowledged that until now the petition concerning maintainability of the swimsuit below Order 7, Rule 11 has not been determined. Due to this fact, the order to offer the appropriate to worship just isn’t right.
Following the Varanasi court docket order, Muslim facet lawyer Akhlaq Ahmed stated, “The order has ignored the Advocate Commissioner report of 2022, ASI’s report, and the choice of 1937, which was in our favour. The Hindu facet has not positioned any proof that prayers had been held earlier than 1993. There is no such thing as a such idol within the place.”
The mosque has 4 ‘tahkhanas’ (cellars) within the basement, of which one continues to be within the possession of the Vyas household, who used to stay there. Vyas had petitioned that, as a hereditary pujari, he be allowed to enter the tahkhana and resume pooja.
The ASI survey, ordered by the identical court docket, in reference to a associated case, prompt that the mosque was constructed throughout Aurangzeb’s rule over the stays of a Hindu temple.
