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With the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) concluding in its 839-page scientific survey report on the Gyanvapi mosque premises that based on the findings, it can be said that a Hindu temple existed before the construction of the existing structure, the ball is now in the court of the Anjuman Intezamia mosque committee to file an objection to the findings..
Thereafter, the court will decide whether the report can be admitted as evidence.. "Technically, it (the survey report) will be considered evidence only after the mosque committee files objection to it, the court hears the matter and orders in favour of admitting it as evidence," Anupam Dwivedi, advocate for Rakhi Singh, one of the five Hindu petitioners in the dispute, told ET..
The court may or may not allow the report or allow only part of it," he said.. ASI has concluded under the 'Nature and Age' section of the report, "Existing architectural remains, decorated mouldings on the walls, karna ratha and prati-ratha of central chamber, a large decorated entrance gate with torana on the eastern wall of the western chamber, a small entrance with mutilated image on lalat bimba, birds and animals carved for decoration in and outside suggest that the western wall is remaining part of a Hindu temple..
The report made note of "a number of Sanskrit and Dravidian inscriptions dating from 12th to 17th century", which, it said, were found on the pre-existing and existing structure, suggesting that the earlier structure was destroyed and parts of it re-used in construction later...
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