GYANVAPI CONTROVERSY: TRUTH WILL COME OUT ; COURT ORDERS TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY BY MAY 17

Varanasi (The Quiver) :Varanasi court on Thursday fixed May 17 as the deadline for the completion of the Gyanvapi mosque survey along with this ,the court also rejected the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee’s plea to replace the advocate commissioner appointed to oversee the exercise at the disputed site.

Responding to the petition filed by five women seeking the rights to perform daily worship of the Shringar Gauri Deity on the outer wall of the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi mosque complex ,The court of the Varanasi civil judge (senior division) Ravi Kumar Diwakar had ordered the survey .

The court encouraged Ajay Kumar Mishra to continue as advocate commissioner on the survey inspection and also the court appointed two additional advocates to assist him – Vishal Singh as special advocate commissioner and Ajay Pratap Singh as assistant advocate commissioner . Besides it directed the district administration to ensure the survey wasn’t delayed further for any reason. Anyone who tries to stall the survey should be dealt with sternly, the court ordered.

The survey started on May 6 in the presence of both parties. The exercise stalled a day later amid a protest by the masjid committee. The committee simultaneously filed a petition in the court, accusing advocate commissioner Mishra of working under pressure from the plaintiffs and requesting that he be replaced.

Meanwhile, Ajay Kumar Mishra said he and his family feared for their safety in the face of attempts to get him replaced. “An atmosphere of fear has been created in an ordinary civil case,” he told the court.

A Twitter post of indianhistroypics shows wall of Kashi Vishwanth Temple in year 1890

Commenting upon the order of the Varanasi court’s direction for completion of a video survey of the Gyanvapi mosque premises by May 17, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) said that the “truth” will soon come out and urged the mosque management committee to “cooperate” in the implementation of the court’s direction.