A court here on Friday directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque located next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple here.
The wazukhana – a small pool inside the mosque where Hindu litigants claim that a shivling exists – will not be part of the survey, in the wake of an earlier Supreme Court order to protect the area.
A throng of people outside the court received the news with slogans of Har Har Mahadev. The order by the court of A.K. Vishvesh upheld the petition of a group of Hindus seeking a survey to determine if the Mughal-era mosque was built at the site of an earlier Hindu temple.
