The ASI survey was ordered by the court to ascertain if the Gyanvapi mosque complex was “constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple”. A Varanasi district court on Wednesday said that ...

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The judge has said in his judgment that the Gyanvapi-Sringar Gauri case is worth hearing and its next hearing will be held on September 22. The Varanasi district court has rejected the application of ...

The controversy surrounding the "Shivling" arose during a court-mandated survey of the Gyanvapi mosque on May 16, 2022, with the Hindu side claiming the object to be a "Shivling" and the Muslim side ...

The Gyanvapi management committee has taken legal action by approaching the Allahabad High Court to challenge a Varanasi court's decision permitting Hindu prayers in the basement of the mosque. The ...

The Gyanvapi Masjid management committee has moved the Supreme Court in support of a three-decade-old law that has stood as a bulwark against attempts by the Hindutva family to take over Muslim ...

The court verdict allows worship of Shringar Gauri and other Hindu deities inside Gyanvapi Masjid. Varanasi district judge Ajaya Krishna Vishvesha, who handled the Shringar Gauri case, issued over a ...

In a key development in the legal battle surrounding Varanasi's Gyanvapi Masjid, a district court yesterday allowed members of a family of priests to pray in one of the cellars in the mosque complex.

On December 6, 1992, a Hindu mob razed the 16th century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, triggering bloody riots that killed at least 2,000 people across India, and an era of unbridled majoritarianism that ...

New Delhi: It was in 1991- a year before the Babri Masjid demolition took place- that a group of priests in Varanasi filed a petition in the court, seeking permission to worship on the Gyanvapi mosque ...

On August 3, the Allahabad High Court made a significant ruling affirming the continuation of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque premises. In a blow to the petition ...

The Allahabad High Court Tuesday adjourned hearing till August 3 in a case filed by the Anjuman Intazamia Masjid Committee challenging the maintainability of a 1991 suit seeking right to worship by ...