In the previous hearing on July 9, the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, which manages the mosque, was granted four weeks to file a response to the petition. The High Court will now review the submissions as part of its deliberation on the matter.
The Ratna Bhandar, the treasury of the 12th-century Jagannath Temple in Odisha, was reopened after 46 years. An 11-member team, including officials from the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration and the Archaeological Survey of India, broke three locks to access the inner chamber.
The Allahabad High Court has instructed the ASI to respond to a request for surveying the Jama Masjid in Agra, following claims that the remains of an idol from the demolished Keshav Dev temple are buried there. The court has set August 5 for the next hearing.
Despite mounting concerns surrounding the proposed survey of the Bhojshala complex, the Supreme Court has refrained from issuing an immediate stay. This decision allows the survey to proceed without halting its progress.
Bhojshala survey: As per an ASI order issued on April 7, 2003, Hindus are allowed to worship inside the Bhojshala complex every Tuesday, while Muslims are allowed to offer namaz at the site on Fridays.
Madhya Pradesh news: As per an ASI order issued on April 7, 2003, Hindus are allowed to worship inside the Bhojshala complex on every Tuesday, while Muslims are allowed to offer namaz at the site on Fridays.
Eleven people, including from both the Hindu and Muslim side, applied for copies of the ASI survey report on the Gyanvapi mosque complex adjoining the Kashi Vishwanath temple, counsel for the Hindu litigants said.
The court has directed ASI to provide a hard copy of its survey report to both Hindu and Muslim sides.
Crucially, the mosque's "wazukhana," a small reservoir utilized for ritual ablutions, was explicitly excluded from the survey. This decision aligns with an earlier Supreme Court order safeguarding the specific spot within the mosque complex where Hindu litigants claim a 'Shivling' structure exists.
The survey, mandated by the Varanasi district court, excludes the "wazukhana," a reservoir for ritual ablutions, within the mosque complex. A prior Supreme Court ruling protected this particular spot from being included in the survey.
The ASI had presented its survey report in a sealed cover to the Varanasi district court on December 18. The ASI started the survey in the barricaded area of the Gyanvapi premises, excluding its sealed section, on August 4.
The ASI started the survey in the barricaded area of the Gyanvapi premises, excluding its sealed section, on August 4, following court orders to determine whether the 17th-century mosque was constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple.
Gyanvapi case: The ASI is carrying out a scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex, next to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple, to determine whether the 17th-century mosque was constructed over a pre-existing temple.
Earlier, the mosque committee had also moved the Supreme Court but the apex court had on August 4 refused to stay the high court's order on the ASI survey of the 17th-century mosque located in Varanasi.
The court of District Judge AK Vishvesh passed the order on a plea by the Gyanvapi management committee seeking a ban on the media coverage of the survey which is being conducted to determine whether the 17th-century mosque was constructed over a temple.
World Heritage Week is celebrated every year from November 19 to November 25.
According to the Delhi Tourism website, An inscription over its (Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque) eastern gate provocatively informs that it was built with material obtained from demolishing '27 Hindu temples'.
Earlier, the ministry announced that all sites and museums under the ASI would remain closed till May 15. But later it was extended till May 30.
Government's aggressive social distancing pitch coupled with Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) shutting all its protected sites from Tuesday has left Delhi's two iconic structures the Qutub Minor and Lotus Temple desolate, giving an eerie feeling.
The excavation done, 80 kilometres east of Tirupati and Nellore, by the ASI team has discovered the remains of a huge settlement surrounded by a massive brick enclosure. Among many antiquities unearthed, is a life-sized Vishnu sculpture and a wide variety of pottery of the early centuries of the current era.
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