The court heard a petition which seeks a scientific survey by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) of the ablution area (wazu khana) of the Gyanvapi complex, excluding the Shivling.
All India Muslim Jamaat (AIMJ) National President Maulana Mufti Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi on Saturday said that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's statement that Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi is actually a Vishwanath Temple is unfortunate.
The High Court dismissed a petition filed by the Anjuman Intejamia Masjid Committee against the Varanasi district court's order allowing Hindus to offer prayers.
The Masjid Committee had approached the Supreme Court’s Registrar for an urgent hearing of its application seeking status quo at the Gyanvapi mosque site.
Following the release of a survey report by the Archeological Survey of India, confirming evidence of Hindu temples, today's Jumma (prayers held by muslims on every friday) at the disputed Gyanvapi mosque holds a special importance.
The court asked the Varanasi court to complete hearing in one of these civil suits, filed in 1991, within six months.
As the deadline for Gyanvapi mosque survey ended on September 2, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has filed an…
The court of Varanasi district judge has ordered that if the print media, social media or electronic media wrongly publishes…
A team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) arrived at the Gyanvapi mosque complex here on Saturday morning to…
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the Allahabad High Court order permitting the “scientific survey” of the Gyanvapi mosque premises stating that at this stage it will not go into the root of the matter whether such an order can be passed in the face of Places of Worship (Special Provision) Act, 1991.
