The Allahabad High Court on Thursday stayed the order passed by the district court for an “archaeological survey” of the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque complex. A petition in the High Court had challenged the order of the district court allowing the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). ) To conduct a survey to find out whether a temple ever existed at the site of the mosque.
A senior division civil judge’s Varanasi fast-track court had on April 8 ordered a five-member ASI team to conduct a “comprehensive physical survey” of the premises of the two temples to determine whether a temple was demolished to build a mosque. was or not. Kashi Vishwanath Temple. The subordinate court had also laid down that at least two members of the five-member ASI team of eminent archaeologists should be from the minority community.
The high court had on August 31 reserved its verdict on the petitions against the order of the district court. This order was challenged by the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board and the Anjuman Intajamia Masjid in Varanasi.
The counsel for the petitioners had earlier argued that the order of the Varanasi court was “not legally tenable” as the suit on which the trial court had passed its order was non-maintainable.
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