Gyanvapi Mosque: ASI to wait for mosque management committee's challenge before starting excavation
ASI team that there should not be any "invasive work" or excavation at the site, as per PTI reports. “We are thinking of giving the mosque management committee enough time to challenge the district court's order before the Allahabad HC. Let there be no excavation till such time.
Come back and tell us what is it that ASI is doing," CJI told SG Tushar Mehta. "We will hear it (the plea) at 2 pm," the bench said. Gyanvapi mosque management committee, Anjuman Intezamia Masjid, mentioned the plea against the Varanasi district court's order for an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) survey of the mosque complex, adjacent to Kashi Vishwanath temple, ANI reported. A Varanasi court directed the ASI on Friday to conduct a "detailed scientific survey" -- including excavations, wherever necessary -- to determine if the mosque was built at a place where a temple existed earlier.
The mosque's "wazookhana" (a small reservoir for Muslim devotees to perform ritual ablutions), where a structure claimed by the Hindu litigants to be a "Shivling" exists, will not be part of the survey, following an earlier Supreme Court order protecting that spot in the complex. District judge A K Vishvesh has directed the ASI to submit a report to the court by August 4, along with video clips and photographs of the survey proceedings.
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