NEW DELHI: The Varanasi courtroom on Tuesday mentioned it should give its order on a plea looking for carbon-dating of a ‘Shivling’, discovered within the Gyanvapi Mosque complicated, on October 14.
The courtroom had requested the mosque administration final week to file its reply to a petitioners’ plea for carbon-dating of a construction, which they declare is a ‘Shivling’.
The construction was discovered contained in the mosque premises throughout a videography survey.
The Hindu petitioners have claimed that it’s a Shivling.
The Gyanvapi mosque is positioned subsequent to the long-lasting Kashi Vishwanath temple and the case within the Varanasi courtroom has revived claims that the mosque was constructed on a portion of the Hindu construction demolished on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
The mosque committee mentioned the item being referred to as a ‘Shivling’ was really a “fountain”.
What is the carbon-dating plea?5 Hindu ladies have filed a petition looking for rights for day by day prayers earlier than the idols on the outer partitions of the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi.
In the course of the preliminary listening to of the case, a Varanasi courtroom —from the place the case was later transferred to District Court docket— ordered videography survey of the mosque compound.
In the course of the survey, it was claimed {that a} ‘Shivling’ was discovered near the “wazookhana” —a small reservoir utilized by Muslims to carry out ritual ablutions earlier than providing namaz— within the mosque premises.
It’s this ‘Shivling’ whose carbon courting now been sought.
One of many 5 petitioners has not joined the plea for carbon courting out of issues that such a course of may injury the “Shivling”.
(With inputs from company).
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