Varanasi: Gyanvapi mosque administration committee strikes to HC in opposition to ASI survey order

The administration committee of Gyanvapi construction in Varanasi, the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, has filed an pressing software earlier than the Allahabad High Court on Monday searching for a keep on April 8 judgment of an area courtroom in Varanasi, permitting an archaeological survey of the whole complicated by the Archaeological Survey of India. The petition contends that the order was handed ‘illegally and with out jurisdiction.
The plea filed by senior advocates Farman Ahmad Naqvi and Syed Ahmad Faizan claims that the decrease courtroom neglected the whole written submissions and applicability of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 and Order 7 Rule 11D of the Civil Procedure Code.
The administration committee of the #GyanvapiMasjid in #Varanasi, has filed an pressing petition earlier than the #AllahabadHighCourt searching for a keep on the April 8 judgment of an area courtroom in Varanasi, permitting an archaeological survey of the whole complicated by the @ASIGoI. pic.twitter.com/mzZLtjeoNl— IANS Tweets (@ians_india) April 13, 2021
Representing Anjuman Intezamia, counsel Farman Ahmad Naqvi mentioned, “We have filed the petition and requested the court to hear us on an urgent basis as our petition is serious in nature.”
The petition additionally factors out that the Allahabad High Court had already reserved its judgment on this matter, however the Varanasi courtroom has been listening to the contentions of the alternative social gathering.
“It seems that the learned civil judge concerned is more interested to skirt all judicial disciplines and ethics as well as procedures of law and to establish himself as above the judicial hierarchy as defined under the Civil Procedure Code and had assumed himself as the sole authority to decide upon the entire issue without looking into the legal impediment and bar,” the petition says.
Meanwhile, the Sunni Waqf Board is within the course of to file an attraction in opposition to the Varanasi courtroom order on Tuesday. UP Sunni Central Waqf Board chairman Zufar Farooqui mentioned, “We support Anjuman Intezamia. The Sunni Board will also move the Allahabad High Court against the Varanasi civil court order on Tuesday.”
Varanasi district courtroom provides its nod for ASI survey of the Gyanvapi construction
Earlier this month, the Varanasi district courtroom allowed the ASI to conduct an archaeological survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque complicated. The mosque itself has been erected over the unique Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
A neighborhood lawyer, VS Rastogi had filed a go well with within the district courtroom demanding that the land on which the Gyanvapi Mosque stands be restored to Hindus for the reason that Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1664 had pulled down a portion of the 2000-year-old Kashi Vishwanath Temple to construct the Gyanvapi Mosque there.
Gyanvapi Mosque was constructed by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb after destroying the Kashi Vishwanath temple. The remnants of the traditional Hindu temple will be seen on the partitions of the Gyanvapi mosque now. The temple was an earlier restoration of the unique Kashi Vishwanath temple, which was destroyed and rebuilt a number of instances in historical past. The present Kashi Vishwanath was constructed on a website adjoining to the Mosque in 1780.