The Allahabad Excessive Court docket Friday put aside a decrease court docket order and ordered a “scientific survey”, together with carbon relationship of the “shivling” stated to have been discovered within the Gyanvapi mosque advanced in Varanasi.
On Might 16 final yr, the court-ordered videographic survey of the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque was accomplished by a Fee appointed by an area court docket. In the course of the survey proceedings, a construction claimed to be a “shivling” by the Hindu facet and a “fountain” by the Muslim facet was discovered to be contained in the mosque premises. The videographic survey was carried out on orders from Civil Choose (Senior Division), Varanasi, Ravi Kumar Diwakar on April 8, 2022.
Of their petition filed earlier than the Allahabad Excessive Court docket in November final yr, the Hindu petitioners – Laxmi Devi and three others – had challenged the order of Varanasi District Choose on October 14, 2022 rejecting their software for a scientific survey and carbon relationship of the “shivling”.
Of their plea earlier than the Allahabad Excessive Court docket, the petitioners had prayed “to make acceptable survey or undertake Floor Penetrating Radar (GPR) and/or excavation associating the petitioners to seek out out the character of development beneath the Shivlingam found on 16.05.2022”.
The petition had additional prayed that “to make scientific investigation by carbon relationship or in any other case to find out the age, nature and different constituents of the Shivlingam”.
Talking to The Indian Categorical on Friday night, Advocate Hari Shankar Jain, who was representing the Hindu facet, stated, “The Excessive Court docket has agreed to our prayer for a scientific probe of the shivling which was discovered contained in the so-called mosque advanced. The Muslim facet says it’s a fountain. We are saying that it’s a shivling. The court docket has ordered that with none damages to the shivling, evaluation and examine of the shivling be achieved.”
The order on Friday was handed by Justice Arvind Kumar Mishra-I.
“The court docket has put aside the order handed by the District Choose, Varanasi on October 14, 2022. The district decide, in his order, had rejected our prayer for carbon relationship evaluation and different scientific survey of the shivling,” added Jain.
Senior Advocate Syed Farman Ahmad Naqvi, who represented the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee (AIMC), stated that after discussions with the mosque committee and others, a choice can be reached whether or not the Excessive Court docket’s order must be challenged within the Supreme Court docket. “We’ll resolve it quickly,” he stated.
“The court docket has allowed the Hindu facet’s petition and has ordered {that a} scientific investigation, together with carbon relationship be achieved on the item discovered within the mosque premises. The court docket had earlier sought the opinion of the Archaeological Survey of India, which instructed the court docket with some reservations that carbon relationship may be achieved by a brand new technique the place the construction received’t be broken,” added Naqvi.