gyanvapi mosque

The Supreme Court declined to halt the ongoing prayers by Hindu devotees within the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh while ordering a "status quo" on religious observances by both Hindu and Muslim sides inside the mosque precincts.

NEW DELHI: On Monday, the Allahabad High Court rejected the appeal from the Gyanvapi Mosque committee challenging the Varanasi district court’s ruling permitting prayers in a basement within the Gyanvapi mosque compound. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal of the Allahabad HC delivered the verdict. “After going through the entire records of the case and after considering […]

NEW DELHI: In a significant development, the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday dismissed a batch of petitions filed by the Muslim side challenging the maintainability of a civil suit pending before a Varanasi court seeking the restoration of a temple at the site where the Gyanvapi mosque stands. The plaintiff from the Hindu side claimed […]

The district judge court in Uttar Pradesh has granted the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) a seventh extension to complete the survey of Gyanvapi mosque. The ASI has been given one more week, until December 18, to submit the scientific study and survey report on the mosque. ASI was expected to present its survey report […]

Allahabad high court reserves verdict on Gyanvapi Mosque survey plea amid controversy

Allahabad High Court is set to reexamine a petition challenging a Varanasi court's directive for an ASI survey to determine if the Gyanvapi mosque was built over a temple

Court rules in favour of an Archaeological Survey of India or scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple

The court passed the order on a petition filed by Hindu Sena chief Vishnu Gupta. The survey will be done on the lines of to the one done in Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque, where a "Shivling" was said to be found during a survey.

VARANASI/NEW DELHI:  On a day when the Supreme Court is to resume hearing in the Gyanvapi Mosque case in Varanasi , a survey-finding commission report has stated that not just a Shivling but as many as four idols of Hindu gods and goddesses and a Sheshnag have been discovered during digging between barricading of Kashi […]

VARANASI/NEW DELHI:  A civil court in Varanasi on Monday decreed that entry of Muslims would be barred from a site inside Gyanvapi mosque complex while citing the discovery of a  12 x 8 feet Shivling — a representation of Hindu Lord Shiva — three days after a four-member survey team was formed to video-graph the […]