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Setback For Hindu Side, No Scientific Probe Of ‘Shivling’


Hindu petitioners sought scientific investigation at the Gyanvapi mosque complex.

Lucknow:
Hindu applicants’ request for carbon dating to determine the age of a purported ‘Shivling’ found in Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque complex has been denied by a senior judge most of the city declined today.

  1. The ‘God Shivling’ or relic of Lord Shiva was found earlier this year during a video survey conducted at the Gyanvapi mosque complex by order of a lower court in response to a petition of five Hindu women asked to pray at a shrine inside the mosque complex. That case is still being heard.

  2. A Varanasi court said any survey such as carbon dating would be a violation of the Supreme Court’s order sealing the location of the “Shivling” inside the mosque, according to a lawyer.

  3. Last month, four of the five Hindu petitioners requested a scientific investigation, including carbon dating, to determine the age of “Shivling”. The women claim that ancient idols of Hindu gods and goddesses are placed inside the mosque.

  4. The mosques commission objected to such an investigation, arguing that the incident was about worshiping at a shrine inside the mosque and had nothing to do with its structure. The object known as “Shivling” is actually a “fountain” for Muslim purification rituals before prayer, they argue.

  5. Last week, the court asked whether “Shivling” could be considered part of the case and whether a scientific investigation might indeed be required. Vishnu Shankar Jain, representing Hindu women, told NDTV that he had tried to convince the court of both charges.

  6. “We said two things – that in our prayers we asked for the right to pray before visible and invisible gods inside the mosque complex. Shivling was previously covered with water and when the water is removed it becomes a visible deity and so it is part of “Mr Jain told NDTV.

  7. On September 12, the Varanasi district judge dismissed a challenge by the mosque committee that the Hindu women’s case had no legal status.

  8. Their challenge was denied on all three counts they cited. The most important of these was the 1991 law, which froze the status of worship as it existed on August 15, 1947. The petitioners did not want property rights, only the right to worship, the court ruled. .

  9. Earlier this year, a lower court in Varanasi ordered the filming of a centuries-old mosque scene based on a woman’s petition. The video report, controversially leaked by the petitioners, claims a “Shivling” was found in a pond used for “Wazoo” or the obligatory purification ritual before people’s prayers. Islamic.

  10. The Gyanvapi Mosque, located in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, is on a list of mosques that Hindu hardliners believe were built on the ruins of temples. It is one of three rows of mosques, next to Ayodhya and Mathura, that the BJP built in the 1980s and 90s.

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