'Gyanvapi neither mosque, nor temple': Buddhist monk files PIL in SC, claims it is monastery

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Buddhist religious leader Sumit Ratan Bhante filed a petition in the Supreme Court, claiming that Gyanvapi is not a temple or a mosque but a Buddhist monastery...

In the PIL filed in Supreme Court, Bhante claimed that the Trishul and swastika symbols found in Gyanvapi belong to Buddhism..

Earlier today, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by the Gyanvapi committee challenging a district court order directing the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a survey to determine if the mosque was built upon a temple...

I am confident that the truth will come out after the ASI survey and the Gyanvapi issue will be resolved, he said.. Earlier, in its order on 21 July, a Varanasi court had directed the ASI to conduct the survey of the mosque that included excavations if necessary..

While ASI had started conducting the survey on the mosque premises, the previous court order was stayed by the Supreme Court on 24 July after the mosque committee approached it...

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