VARANASI: The Varanasi district court docket on Thursday admitted a plea for carbon-dating of a “Shivling” claimed to have been discovered contained in the Gyanvapi mosque advanced right here and requested the mosque administration to file its objections by the subsequent date of listening to.
Decide A Ok Vishesh mounted September 29 as the subsequent date of listening to within the matter involving the Gyanvapi mosque-Shringar Gauri dispute.
The court docket resumed listening to within the matter on Thursday, after rejecting a plea questioning the maintainability of the petition on September 12.
The petition seeks the court docket’s permission for worshipping the idols of the Hindu deities situated on an outer wall of the mosque each day.
Showing on behalf of the plaintiff ladies, advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain positioned the demand for carbon-dating of the “Shivling” earlier than the court docket. The choose allowed the plea and stuck September 29 as the subsequent date of listening to within the matter, district authorities advocate Rana Sanjeev Singh mentioned.
The court docket didn’t entertain the Muslim facet’s plea for fixing the subsequent listening to eight weeks after the final date of listening to within the matter on September 12, he added.
The Hindu facet had earlier claimed that the “Shivling” was discovered near the “wazookhana” — a small reservoir utilized by Muslims to carry out ritual ablutions earlier than providing namaz — on the mosque premises. The mosque administration had, nonetheless, mentioned it was a part of the fountain system of the “wazookhana”.
A complete of 15 folks had submitted purposes within the court docket to turn out to be events to the dispute. The choose mentioned the purposes of solely eight folks, who had been current earlier than the court docket, will probably be thought of, Singh mentioned.
5 ladies have filed the petition, in search of permission to worship the idols of the Hindu deities claimed to be situated on an outer wall of the mosque each day.
The Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee has mentioned the mosque is a Waqf property. It had earlier questioned the maintainability of the plea.
The committee takes care of the affairs of the mosque.
The mosque is situated subsequent to the enduring Kashi Vishwanath temple and the case revived claims that the mosque was constructed on a portion of the Hindu construction demolished on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
The Supreme Court docket had directed the district court docket to first determine on the maintainability of the case filed by the 5 Hindu ladies, in search of permission to supply each day prayers earlier than the idols of Shringar Gauri.
The mosque committee had approached the apex court docket, arguing that their plea was not maintainable because the Locations of Worship (Particular Provisions) Act, 1991 mandated that the character of such locations ought to stay because it was on the time of independence. The 1991 regulation made an exemption just for the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute.
