Varanasi (UP): The Muslim side’s plea for allowing eight weeks’ time before ahead with the hearing in the Gyanvapi Srinagar Gauri dispute case was rejected at a Varanasi court in Thursday. The court also issued a notice to the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee after Hindu plaintiffs sought carbon dating of an oval object found in the Gyanvapi mosque complex. The Hindu litigants claimed that object to be a Shivling.
The court dismissed an application filed by the Masjid committee, caretaker of the mosque on September. In the application, the mosque committee challenged the maintainability of the petitions filed by five Hindu women seeking right to worship Hindu deities on the premises of the Gyanvapi mosque. A lawyer Vishnu Jain who represented the Hindu litigants told reporters that the Masjid committee’s application demanding carbon dating of the “Shivling” would be disposed of on September 29 when the court would hear the case.
