Gyanvapi case: A fast-track court in Varanasi on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of a plea seeking worship of the ‘Shivling’ on Gyanvapi Mosque premises to November 14.
According to reports, the hearing was adjourned as the concerned judge would not sit in the fast-track court today.
The court will now hear the plea and deliver its verdict on the issue on November 14. The verdict will be delivered by the Civil Judge Senior Division Fast Track court on three main demands made by Hindu petitioners.
Notably, the Muslim side is presently allowed to offer prayers within the Gyanvapi complex.
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Ban demand
The Hindu side has demanded ban on entry of Muslims, permission to commence offering of prayers and handing the entire complex to Hindus.
In October, a Varanasi court had rejected the demand for carbon dating and scientific investigation of the ‘Shivling’ claimed to be found by the Hindu side in the ‘wazukhana’ of the mosque.
On the other side, Muslim petitioners had claimed that the structure was a fountain. An application seeking carbon dating of the structure was submitted by Hindu petitioners in the Varanasi court on September 22. On September 29 the petitioners had also demanded a survey by the Archaeological Survey of India .
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Carbon dating
Advocate Vishnu Jain, representing the Hindu petitioners, had said, “Court has rejected our demand of seeking carbon dating. We’ll move to Supreme Court against this order and challenge it there. I cannot announce the date as of now, but we’ll soon challenge this order in Supreme Court.”
Akhlaq Ahmed, who represented Muslim petitioners, had said that the plea for carbon dating was not maintainable as it was against the Supreme Court order that stated protecting the structure.
“We responded to the application on carbon dating. Stone does not have the capacity to absorb carbon. The Supreme Court in its May 17 order, according to which, the object that the commission found, had to be protected. The order of the SC will prevail, so the object cannot be opened,” he said.
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