The Varanasi district court on Thursday issued a notice to the Muslim side on the petition by the Hindu side in which it has sought carbon dating of the ‘Shivling’ reportedly found in the Gyanvapi Mosque complex.
District Judge A K Vishvesh rejected the Muslim side’s request for 8 weeks’ time to prepare for the next hearing and said iw will next take up the matter on September 29.
On September 12, the court had said it will continue to hear a petition seeking daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols are located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi Masjid, dismissing the mosque committee’s argument that the case is not maintainable.
It had rejected the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee’s petition questioning the maintainability of the case, which has reignited the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi Masjid dispute. The mosque committee’s dismissed plea had cited the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 to make its case.
