HC adjourns hearing on ASI survey plea
PRAYAGRAJ, May 6 -- The Allahabad high court on Monday adjourned hearing on a plea seeking an ASI survey of the wazukhana (ablution pond) area in the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi.
The court set July 4 as the next date of hearing after being informed of an interim Supreme Court order restraining courts across the country from passing directions on lawsuits relating to religious places.
Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal passed the order on a petition filed by Rakhi Singh, a plaintiff in the Shringar Gauri worshipping suit 2022, pending before the Varanasi's district court.
The petition in the high court has challenged a Varanasi district judge's order refusing to direct the ASI to undertake a survey of the wazukhana area except the structure the Hindu side claims to be a Shivlinga and the Muslim side describes as a fountain in Gyanvapi complex....
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