Hindu Side Seeks Handover Gyanvapi Basement.

Gyanvapi Basement Fresh Trigger As Hindu Side Seeks Handover.

The Hindu side in the Gyanvapi case has sought that a basement of the Gyanvapi complex still under possession of the Vyas family of Varanasi be handed over to the District Magistrate.

Times Now Digital | Varanasi | Sept 26, 2023:: The Hindu side in the Gyanvapi case has sought handover of a basement of the complex in a fresh request before a district court on Tuesday.

The basement is said to be in the possession of the Vyas family and is located in the southern part of the complex. The Hindu side has demanded that the basement be handed over to the District Magistrate immediately and that the DM be appointed as its receiver. The plea comes at a time when an ASI survey is underway at the Gyanvapi complex.

Vishnu Shankar Jain, the advocate for the Hindu side, said, “We have filed a civil suit on behalf of the Vyas family in the honourable civil court, Varanasi, and we have also applied before the Varanasi district court and the district judge, to transfer the original trial to the district court, Varanasi, like it is doing in other cases,” ANI reported.

“The demand in this is that a basement which is on the southern side of the Masjid can be taken over by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee and hence we have demanded that the possession of this basement be handed over to DM immediately and the DM be appointed its receiver.”

“We have gone to the district court with this demand. Today, a hearing has been done on our transfer application and the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee has appeared in this case and asked to reply. We will receive an order on the transfer application tomorrow. After that, further action will be taken in the case,” he said.

The Vyas family of Varanasi is still in possession of one of the four basements of the Gyanvapi complex. In 1991, the family had filed a case seeking the transfer of the Gyanvapi complex to Hindus, claiming that except for the upper structure where namaz is offered and the domes, the entire structure still stands on the Lord Visheshwar temple.

The Allahabad High Court initiated an ASI survey of the complex in August. On Friday, the court granted the Archaelogical Survey of India four weeks additional time to complete the survey.

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Courtesy: Times Now.