The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board on 13 April, moved an urgent petition before the Allahabad High Court in the Kashi Vishwanath Mandi-Gyanvapi Masjid case in which the trial court at Varanasi allowed an ASI study of the mosque on 8 April.
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Senior fast-track court civil judge Ashutosh Tiwari on April 8 directed the ASI to conduct a survey of the Gyanvapi mosque compound adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath temple to find out whether it was a “superimposition, alteration or addition or there is structural overlapping of any kind, with or over, any other religious structure”.
The committee would “trace as to whether any Hindu temple ever existed before the mosque was built or superimposed at the site”.
