Varanasi: The Varanasi court has given its verdict on the Hindu side's appeal for an additional survey of the entire Gyanvapi complex. The Hindu side has suffered a setback from the court. The Varanasi District Court has rejected the petition of the Hindu side. A petition was filed on their behalf for an ASI survey and excavation under the central dome, which was rejected by the court. However, now the Hindu party will appeal against this decision in the Allahabad High Court.

Since the case related to this is in the High Court, that is why it has been dismissed. On this decision of the court, the Hindu side said, 'Don't call it a setback. We will go to Allahabad High Court against this decision.

In fact, in the Gyanvapi Moolwad 1991, an ASI survey was demanded in the entire complex. This decision has come today in a 33-year-old case. This case was transferred to the fast-track court. It was heard in the fast-track court for about eight months and the Muslim side had protested. In the ASI survey, a survey of the washroom was demanded. Also, an ASI survey was demanded by digging under the main dome. In this case, the Hindu side has suffered a setback today. The main petitioner of the Moolwad 1991 was Vijay Shankar Rastogi. The court gave its decision on Moolwad 9131 and 32 Arazi numbers.

In the case, the Hindu side had claimed that a 100-foot Shivlinga is present beneath the main dome and that the rest of the site should be excavated and an ASI survey should be conducted.

According to Vijay Shankar Rastogi, the lawyer of the Hindu side, "Case number 610 is pending in the Civil Senior Division Fast Track Court Varanasi under the year 1991. ASI survey had already been done in the case. But an order has been passed in this case today on 08.04.2021. No order was passed in compliance with that order, so an application was given on their behalf that an additional survey of the entire Gyanvapi complex should be done. Whatever has not been done in the earlier survey should be done."

On the type of survey to be conducted, he said, “Under the central dome, there is a 100-foot-long Shivling of Swayambhu Jyotirlinga and the Argha is a hundred feet deep. It has been covered with big borders and strips and has been made non-existent. We want to bring it to light. Neither the ASI nor the GPR system was working there. Neither the ASI nor the GPR system was able to report the clear shape and everything below. So my request to the court was that moving away from this structure, without causing any damage to it, dig a pit 10 meters, 5 meters away, and go inside and see at that level whether the Jyotirlinga of Swayambhu Vishwanath, by whose name Kashi is known, by whose name Kashi is famous in the world, such Vishwanath is present there or not and report about it.”