Gyanvapi Mosque ASI Survey Ends After 10 Hours As SC Refuses To 'Interfere'

Gyanvapi Mosque ASI Survey: Photography and videography records were collected and stored following the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) survey of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi.

File photo of Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi

Source : PTI

Documentation work began on Thursday after photography and videography records were collected and stored following the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) survey of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi. The marked material was collected in front of four women litigants and their lawyers. All the records have to be presented in the Allahabad High Court for which all drafts are being prepared. The first half of the survey started at 7:10 am and ended at 12 noon today while the second shift started at 2:50 after Friday Namaz and ended exactly at 5.00.

VIDEO | ASI team concludes survey at #Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi. pic.twitter.com/md0XbqBnUq

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) August 4, 2023

Subhash Nandan Chaturvedi, an advocate representing the Hindu side, said that the survey is being done in a limited area inside the premises, and not in the portion claimed to be a Temple.

VIDEO | "As of now, the survey is being done in a limited area inside the premises," says Subhash Nandan Chaturvedi, advocate representing the Hindu side, after ASI concluded first day's survey at Varanasi's #Gyanvapi mosque complex. pic.twitter.com/XQle8J5MdE

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) August 4, 2023

Notably, a Varanasi court on Friday granted additional four weeks to the ASI for completing the scientific survey on the Gyanvapi mosque that stands next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple, news agency PTI reported.

Hearing a plea by the ASI, District Judge A K Vishvesha allowed it additional time.

According to advocate Madan Mohan Yadav, representing the Hindu petitioners, the deadline for completing the survey has been extended to September 4 from August 4.

The ASI resumed the survey Friday morning after the Allahabad High Court granted permission for the same on August 3.

The Muslim side moved the Supreme Court against the HC order, but the apex court refused to interfere in the ASI survey. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra asked the ASI not to take recourse to any invasive act during the survey, PTI reported.

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As per a PTI report, the ASI team members were present inside the mosque complex under tight security arrangements along with the representatives of the Hindu petitioners to a legal dispute involving the mosque.

Meanwhile, representatives of the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid committee, managing the mosque, who were to accompany the ASI team, kept away.

PTI reported the Hindu side's lawyer Madan Mohan Yadav as stating that a 43-member ASI team was conducting the survey work.

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