As ASI proceeds to survey Kashi Vishwanath Temple, petition filed to unearth stolen idols buried beneath Jama Masjid in Agra

After the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was instructed by Varanasi court docket to conduct a survey across the Kashi Vishwanath Temple upon which the Gyanvyapi mosque was forcefully constructed upon — one other petition has been filed in a neighborhood Mathura court docket searching for a survey of the Jama Masjid in Agra and the Shahi Eidgah mosque in Mathura to seek out out if idols of lord Krishna allegedly looted from the Mathura construction are buried within the Agra mosque.The petition, filed by an activist named Shailendra Singh representing Bhagwan Shri Krishna Virajmaan, cited the April 8 order by the Varanasi court docket for its plea. The Mathura court docket accepted the petition and glued May 10 because the date of listening to.Quoting from ‘Anecdotes of Aurangzeb And Historical Essays By Jadunath Sarkar,’ Published By M. C. Sarkar & Sons. 902-a Harrison Road, Calcutta 1917. On web page 11-12’ the PIL acknowledged: “The grandest shrine of Mathura, Kesav Rai’s temple, built at a cost of 33 lakhs of rupees by the Bundela Rajah Birsingh Dev, was razed to the ground in January 1670, and a mosque built on its site. The idols were brought to Agra and buried under the steps of Jahanara’s mosque that they might be constantly trodden on by the Muslims going in to pray.”“We submitted an application on Wednesday in the court of Civil Judge, Senior Division, Mathura praying that in some books, it is written by historians that where the Shahi Eidgah mosque, Mathura, is there in current times, there used to be a temple there earlier,” Singh was quoted as saying by the Indian Express the place he additional added, “After the temple was demolished, the idols were removed and were buried in a mosque in Agra, which is currently called the Jama Masjid, outside the Agra Fort…We have moved the application that an ASI survey should be done in the two mosques to find out if there was a temple there earlier or not.”The petition, if granted permission by the court docket, would put the onus on ASI as soon as once more to show that there certainly was a temple beneath the constructions. So far, the ASI has carried out a marvellous job in debunking the claims of the ‘seculars’ of the nation and one reckons, related is perhaps the case with Varanasi and Mathura.Read extra: How the authorized battle for Kashi Vishwanath might be a simple win and it’ll go away the Islamo-leftist cabal joblessIt was the ASI whose pathbreaking findings helped Hindus win the long-drawn Ram Janmabhoomi dispute. The ASI, in two separate surveys, had established the Hindu roots of the underlying construction to the Babri Masjid.In the survey of 2003, since Babri was not current as a superstructure, ASI was in a position to uncover finer particulars in regards to the temple which was destroyed and over which the unlawful construction was constructed.Proving that the Gyanvyapi mosque was constructed on the ruins of the Vishwanath Temple shouldn’t be a tedious job for the ASI because the construction and its pillars are seen to the bare eye. The solely hurdle within the path is the Places of Worship Act 1991 which has additionally been challenged within the court docket.