Security beefed up following the court’s verdict in the case of the Gyanvapi Masjid complex survey in Varanasi, Thursday, May 12, 2022.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Varanasi district court’s order that allowed an advocate commissioner to conduct a video survey at the Gyanvapi mosque near the famed Kashi Vishwanath temple.
The appeal by Anjuman Intezamia Masajid, the Gyanvapi Masjid committee, was mentioned by senior counsel Huzefa Ahmadi before Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana seeking urgent listing. “Please list this milord. The survey is taking place today,” Ahmadi said.
The CJI said that he will examine the petition and documents and list it. “I have no idea about this case. Let me look at the papers. We will list it,” the CJI said.
The Varanasi district court had on Thursday rejected a plea by the mosque committee to replace the advocate commissioner it had appointed for conducting a video survey. The court, however, appointed two more lawyers to help the advocate commissioner carry out the survey at the mosque. The court even ordered police to register FIRs if there are attempts to scuttle the exercise.
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