Varanasi court grants additional 4 weeks to ASI to complete Gyanvapi survey

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A Varanasi court today granted additional four weeks to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for completing the scientific survey on the Gyanvapi mosque that stands next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple here...

Hearing a plea by the ASI, District Judge A K Vishvesha allowed it the additional time..

The Supreme Court on Friday gave a green signal and allowed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct its survey at the Gyanvapi Mosque site and refused to interfere with the previous order by the Varanasi High Court..

Earlier today, a 30-member team of the ASI entered the Gyanvapi Mosque complex to conduct a survey in order to determine if the structure was built over a temple..

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Friday resumed its scientific survey of the Gyanvapi premises here to determine whether the 17th-century mosque was constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple..

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