New Delhi:
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred the scientific survey to find out age of purported ‘Shivling’ discovered at Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, underscoring that “we have to tread rigorously on this matter”.
The high court docket was listening to a plea difficult the May 12 Allahabad High Court order of conducting a “scientific survey”, together with carbon courting, to find out the age of the construction.
“Since the implications of the impugned order advantage nearer scrutiny, the implementation of the instructions involved within the order shall stand deferred until the following date,” mentioned the bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud.
The bench additionally issued notices to the Centre, the Uttar Pradesh authorities and the Hindu petitioners on the mosque panel’s plea in opposition to the excessive court docket order for the scientific survey and carbon courting of ‘Shivling’.
The Centre and the Uttar Pradesh authorities each agreed for adjourning the proposed scientific survey of “Shivling” in the intervening time.
The ‘Shivling’ was discovered earlier this yr throughout a video survey carried out within the Gyanvapi temple complicated following the orders of a decrease court docket in Varanasi.
The mosque authorities have objected to a scientific investigation, arguing that the item being referred to as a ‘Shivling’ is definitely a “fountain” for ritual ablutions.
The mosque, positioned subsequent to the long-lasting Kashi Vishwanath Temple, has been one of many three temple-mosque rows — in addition to Ayodhya and Mathura — which the BJP raised within the Nineteen Eighties and 90s, gaining nationwide prominence.
The decades-old authorized dispute over the difficulty was escalated after the Supreme Court’s judgment in favour of a temple within the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid subject.