Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque: Report, Meant For Court, Is Made Public

New Delhi:

The report of the filming of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Masjid was submitted in courtroom immediately in a case involving Hindu petitioners requesting entry to worship what they declare are idols of Hindu gods and goddesses contained in the mosque complicated.

A replica of the report, submitted in a sealed envelope, was shared by the attorneys of the petitioners hours later and it seems to again their claims of the presence of Hindu idols and symbols contained in the Gyanvapi mosque. NDTV can not independently confirm the small print.

The report shared by the petitioners says symbols of a “Trishul” or trident, lotus engravings and historic Hindi carvings have been discovered within the video survey of the mosque complicated that’s proper subsequent to the enduring Kashi-Vishwanath temple.

Claims of a “Shivling” had already been made public earlier and the official who led the survey was sacked due to the leak, allegedly by a “private cameraman” employed by him.

Listed below are some obvious findings of the report:

• The pillars within the basement of the mosque have engravings of flowers and a ‘kalash’ (pitcher).
• Carvings in “historic Hindi language” have been discovered on a pillar within the basement.
• The image of a “Trishul” has been discovered on a wall of the basement.
• The crew discovered two giant pillars and an arch protruding from the western wall of mosque. The petitioners name them remnants of temples, however the mosque committee opposes that declare.
• A conical construction has been discovered beneath the central dome of mosque.
• A stone beneath the third dome of the mosque has lotus engravings.
• A spherical construction of two.5 ft peak has been observed within the pond within the mosque complicated used for “Wazoo” (purification ritual earlier than namaaz). Petitioners name it a “Shivling” however the mosque committee says it was a fountain.

Whereas there was no official response from the Gyanvapi mosque committee, sources known as it “shocking” {that a} delicate report was shared even earlier than the courtroom may see it or give an opinion. None of this, the sources say, solutions the query — whether or not the video survey violates the regulation, particularly the Locations of Worship Act of 1991, which maintains the spiritual standing of anywhere of worship because it was on August 15, 1947.

The mosque committee has challenged the filming contained in the Gyanvapi complicated citing the regulation. The committee immediately additionally submitted an affidavit in courtroom opposing any demolition contained in the mosque, which is a part of a contemporary request by the unique petitioners.

The report was submitted in three sealed containers and a chip with a whole lot of video clips and pictures.

The Varanasi courtroom will hear the case subsequent on Monday, after the Supreme Court docket, which takes up tomorrow an attraction towards filming within the mosque. Earlier immediately, the Supreme Court docket had requested the Varanasi courtroom to not proceed additional within the case till tomorrow night.