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The board has sought a stay on the April 8 order of the Varanasi civil court order, allowing an archaeological survey of the Gyanvapi Masjid complex.
AYODHYA: The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board on Tuesday, moved an urgent application in Allahabad high court seeking a stay on the April 8 order of the Varanasi civil court order, allowing an archaeological survey of the Gyanvapi Masjid complex.
Sunni Waqf Board’s counsel Puneet Gupta filed the plea, a day after Anjuman Intezamia of Gyanvapi Masjid moved a similar petition in high court, challenging the trial court’s order to conduct a survey of the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi complex by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board on Tuesday moved an urgent petition before the Allahabad High Court in the Kashi Vishwanath Mandi-Gyanvapi Masjid case in which the trial court at Varanasi allowed an ASI study of the mosque on April .
Kashi, Mathura Are Not About The Past; They Symbolise An Iconoclasm That Continues Even Today
by R Jagannathan - Apr 12, 2021 11:01 AM
The Gyanvapi mosque. (Wikimedia Commons)
Snapshot
Kashi and Mathura are not instances of Muslim iconoclasm and temple vandalism from some time in the distant past where despotic rulers had no compunctions about targeting Hindus.
These problems are extant today in many parts of the Indian sub-continent.
A Varanasi district courtâs order asking the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to check if there was a destroyed temple under the Gyanvapi mosque has raised liberal and Muslim hackles all around.