Gyanvapi mosque survey should be done using a non-invasive method, said the Supreme Court
New Delhi:
The Gyanvapi mosque survey by the country’s top archaeology body should be done using a “non-invasive method”, the Supreme Court said today.
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has been given four weeks to submit its report to a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi.
The Supreme Court refused to stop the survey ordered by the Allahabad High Court.
The mosque committee had challenged the high court order in the Supreme Court. During the Supreme Court hearing today, the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee said the ASI survey of the Gyanvapi mosque will go into history and will “reopen wounds of the past”.
“… History has taught us something. What happened in December 1992, that raises suspicion and distrust at every step,” the mosque committee’s lawyer Huzefa Ahmadi said.
“Let’s not get into the past now,” a bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra replied.
After the Supreme Court ordered the ASI to use a non-invasive method in its survey, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for ASI and the UP government, promised no excavation work will be done and no structure inside the mosque will be harmed.
