Earlier in the day, the high court dismissed a petition filed by the Gyanvapi committee challenging a district court order directing the ASI to conduct the survey to determine if the mosque was built upon a temple.
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala agreed to list the plea for hearing on Friday after taking note of the submissions of senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, representing the Gyanvapi mosque management committee.
On May 16 last year, the court-ordered videographic survey of the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque was completed by a Commission appointed by a local court
The Allahabad High Court has granted the ASI the last opportunity to file its response by April 5 clarifying whether the process of carbon dating will damage an object, claimed to be a "Shivling", found inside the Gyanvapi mosque.