Responding to the Varanasi court's order, allowing the Hindu side to perform prayers in the sealed basement of Gyanvapi mosque premises, Jitendra Nath Vyas, on Thursday said that he is happy to learn that he has got the permission to resume puja there.
After Varanasi Court allowed Hindu devotees to offer prayers inside the Gyanvapi mosque complex, advocate Sohan Lal Arya said that arrangements have been made but Vyas Ka Tekhana has not been opened for the devotees yet.
Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi court on Friday granted four weeks’ additional time to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to complete the scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra made corrections in the order and deleted the particular paragraph after taking note of the submissions of senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, appearing for the Committee of Management Anjuman Intezamia of the Gy
The petition was filed in May this year by five women who in another plea had earlier sought permission to pray at the “Shringar Gauri Sthal” inside the shrine complex.