Gyanvapi Survey Live Updates: Supreme Court stops ASI survey of mosque complex till 5 pm, July 26 after allowing the work to continue with excavation. The Muslim side had moved the court and had requested for survey to be delayed.A survey of the barricaded area of the Gyanvapi mosque by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) began even as the mosque management committee has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against an order by the court of the Varanasi district judge allowing the exercise.The development comes days after the Varanasi court on Friday ordered an extensive survey of the barricaded area of the Gyanvapi Masjid, excluding its sealed section, by ASI to ascertain whether the mosque was built over a pre-existing Hindu temple, holding that the scientific investigation is "necessary" for the "true facts" to come out.The Varanasi District Magistrate and the Commissioner of Police Ashok Mutha Jain held a meeting with the Hindu plaintiffs, their counsel, in
Gyanvapi mosque news: A court-mandated videography survey of the Gyanvapi Masjid complex was carried out peacefully for the second consecutive day on Sunday, with 65 per cent of the exercise completed.