Gyanvapi Mosque: Muslim side refutes ‘trishul, kalash' discovery claim as ‘rumours’, threatens to boycott survey
Allahabad High Court order allowing the ASI survey. Government counsel Rajesh Mishra said that on Sunday the survey work began at around 8.00 am and will continue till 5.00 pm. Meanwhile, the Hindu side lawyers on Saturday had claimed that not an entire idol but fragments of the same had been found by ASI during the survey.
It is to be noted that the ASI has made no such official statement. The Muslim side on Sunday warned that they would boycott the survey that they had joined on Saturday, after refraining to do so on Friday, if the Hindu side spread ‘rumours’ that during the survey of the 'tahkhaanaa' (basement) on that day, idols, 'trishul' and 'kalash' were found. Advocate Mumtaz Ahmad, representing the Muslim side in the Gyanvapi mosque survey warned against spreading rumours and sought authorities' attention into the matter.
He vehemently refuted claims that fragments of idols have been found in the debris inside the complex. "My representative is present there... Rumours are being spread even for areas where a survey is yet to be done, that an idol has been found or a trident has been found (inside the Gyanvapi mosque)...
When the public sees this, there will be a frenzy... The administration should look into this, it is their duty to maintain law and order," Ahmad told news agency ANI. Sudhir Tripathi, one of the advocates representing the Hindu side, said on Saturday that Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) and other techniques and machines were used for the survey work on Saturday.
The Hindu side is satisfied with the survey work so far, he said. Meanwhile, the Varanasi court has granted the ASI an additional four weeks to complete their survey. Syed Mohammad Yasin, the Joint Secretary of the Anjuman
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