The advocate presenting the Hindu side in Gyanvapi case on Tuesday said a fresh request has been submitted in a district court in Varanasi seeking the handover of the basement on the complex from under the possession of the Vyas family to the District MagistrateThis comes amid the ongoing survey at Gyanvapi complex by the Archaeological Survey of IndiaThe ‘tahkhana’ (basement) that is under the possession of the Vyas family is in the southern part of the Gyanvapi mosqueThe Hindu side of the case has demanded that the basement be handed over to the District Magistrate immediately and that he be appointed as its receiver.We have filed a civil suit on behalf of the Vyas family in the honourable civil court, Varanasi, and we have also applied before the Varanasi district court and district judge, to transfer the original trial to the district court, Varanasi, like it is doing in other cases,” advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain told ANI
The demand in this is that a basement which is on the southern side of the Masjid can be taken over by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee and hence we have demanded that the possession of this basement be handed over to DM immediately and that the DM be appointed its receiver,” he saidWe have gone to the district court with this demand. Today, a hearing has been done on our transfer application and Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee has appeared in this case and asked to reply. We will receive an order on the transfer application tomorrow. After that, further action will be taken in this case,” he addedThe Vyas family of Varanasi continues to possess one of the four basements of the complex that was surveyed by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
In 1991, the Vyas family had filed a case demanding the handover of the Gyanvapi mosque structure to Hindus, claiming that except for the upper structure, where namaz is offered and the domes, the entire structure still stands on the Lord Visheshwar templeThough the Vyas family does not live in the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi complex anymore, one of the four basements of the mosque is still in their possessionIn August, the Allahabad High Court had allowed the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex. The court on Friday granted four weeks’ additional time to the ASI to complete their survey Earlier on July 6, Hindu petitioners in the Gyanvapi case urged the Supreme Court to hear at the earliest a petition challenging Allahabad High Court’s order
The Varanasi Court on Friday pronounced its order allowing ASI survey to be conducted inside the Gyanvapi mosque premises excluding the Wazu tank which has been sealedA petition was filed by the Hindu side seeking direction for a “scientific survey” of the entire Gyanvapi mosque premises by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing the Hindu side in the Gyanvapi mosque case, said, “I have been informed that my application has been approved and the court has directed to conduct an ASI survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex, excluding the Wazu tank which has been sealed.The Hindu side of the long-running dispute submitted a petition letter in the Varanasi court asking for an ASI study of the entire complex of the Gyanvapi mosque located in Vishwanath temple
Our application for the ASI survey has been accepted. It’s a turning point in the case,” ANI quoted advocate Subhash Nandan Chaturvedi, representing Hindu side in the Gyanvapi case, as saying Advocates and supporters of the Hindu side are hopeful and eagerly waiting for the Court’s verdict on the petition The court completed arguments on a petition last Friday (July 14)The petition was filed in May this year by five women who in another plea had earlier sought permission to pray at the “Shringar Gauri Sthal” inside the shrine complex. A structure claimed to be a “Shivling” on one side and a “fountain” on the other side — was found on the mosque premises The petition was filed in May this year by five women who in another plea had earlier sought permission to pray at the “Shringar Gauri Sthal” inside the shrine complex. A structure — claimed to be a “Shivling” on one side and a “fountain” on the other side — was found on the mosque premises