had asked ASI on July 21 last year to do a scientif ic survey of the Gyanvapi premises and determine whether the mosque stood over a pre-existing structure. Below is the key highlights of the ASI ...

The western wall of the Gyanvapi mosque located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, is the remaining part of a pre-existing Hindu temple, says the ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey report of the ...

"Half-dismantled, it became the foundation of the present Gyanvapi mosque". It is also accepted that the mosque is built on the ruins of the temple. In Prof Eck's description "one wall of the old ...

VARANASI: The cleaning of the Wazukhana area of the Gyanvapi Mosque started on Saturday under strict security arrangements by the district officials. The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed an ...

The petitioners have alleged that the 16th-century mosque was built at the site ... to pray at a shrine located behind the western wall of the Gyanvapi mosque complex. They claimed the mosque ...

N EW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the cleaning of "wazukhana" of the Gyanvapi mosque, located next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple, where a structure -- claimed to be a "Shivling" by ...

A local court-ordered survey in 2022 at the Gyanvapi claimed to have found evidence of a Shivling on the premises, triggering tensions. The case is now in the apex court. Nearly 355 years after the ...

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The Gyanvapi Mosque management committee has moved the Supreme Court to oppose petitions challenging the validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991.

The Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi city is at the centre of a dispute in court India's top court is hearing a number of petitions challenging a decades-old law that preserves the character and ...

Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal issued the order while hearing a civil revision filed by Rakhi Singh, one of the plaintiffs in the ongoing case before the Varanasi district court. The Allahabad High ...

The Supreme Court is currently hearing a plea by Hindu petitioners requesting an ASI survey of the sealed area within the Gyanvapi mosque complex. This area was sealed in 2022 after the alleged ...