Gyanvapi Case: Petitioner had requested that he be allowed to enter the tehkhana and resume pooja
New Delhi:
The Allahabad Excessive Court docket right now dismissed a petition difficult the Varanasi district courtroom’s resolution to permit Hindu prayers in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque.
”Hindu Prayers within the ’Vyas Tehkhana’ will proceed,” Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal stated dismissing the mosque committee’s petition.
The Varanasi district courtroom had final month dominated {that a} priest can supply prayers within the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque referred to as ”Vyas Tehkhana”.
The district courtroom order was delivered on the petition of Shailendra Kumar Pathak, who stated his maternal grandfather Somnath Vyas supplied prayers until December 1993. Mr Pathak had requested that, as a hereditary pujari, he be allowed to enter the tehkhana and resume puja.
The mosque has 4 ’tehkhanas’ (cellars) within the basement, and considered one of them remains to be with the Vyas household.
The mosque committee had refuted the petitioner’s model. The committee stated no idols existed within the cellar, so there was no query of prayers being supplied there until 1993.
The committee went to the excessive courtroom on February 2 inside hours of the Supreme Court docket refusing to listen to its plea towards the Varanasi district courtroom order and asking it to method the excessive courtroom.
The Allahabad Excessive Court docket had reserved its order after listening to each events on February 15.
An Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) report survey, ordered by the district courtroom, in reference to a associated case, had earlier urged that the mosque was constructed throughout Aurangzeb’s rule over the stays of a Hindu temple.