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  • Gyanvapi ‘Shivling’: Allahabad HC slams ASI for not filling report on carbon dating

    Gyanvapi ‘Shivling’: Allahabad HC slams ASI for not filling report on carbon dating

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    Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court (HC) has slammed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Director General (DG), V. Vidyavathi for her failure to file a reply, giving an opinion as to whether a safe evaluation of the age of the Shivling-like structure, purportedly found inside the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi in May last year, can be done or not.

    Justice Arvind Kumar Mishra was hearing a revision petition filed by Laxmi Devi and three others, who challenged the Varanasi court’s order of October 14, 2022.

    They had sought a HC direction to the ASI to conduct a scientific probe of the Shivling-like structure through carbon dating and ground penetrating radar (GPR).

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    Justice Mishra called the ASI official’s attitude “lethargic” and said inaction had hampered the court proceedings.

    However, the court gave the ASI DG a last opportunity to file a counter-affidavit in the case by April 17, the next date of hearing.

    The HC observed, “Certainly, this lethargic attitude on the part of the Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, is highly deplorable and such practice must be deprecated. The desired report has not been submitted as directed since November 2022.”

    “A high authority holding post of Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, controlling particular administration all over the country must know the seriousness of the matter and ought to respect the orders of the court, primarily of higher courts,” the bench added.

    The HC clarified that it will not permit any authority to occasion delay on the pretext of the submission of the desired report of the ASI.

    Earlier, hearing the matter on November 5, the HC had issued a notice to the ASI, essentially asking the ASI DG, to give her opinion by November 21, 2022.

    In its October 14 order, the Varanasi court had rejected Hindu worshippers’ plea for conducting a scientific probe of the Shivling-like structure, reportedly found inside Gyanvapi mosque complex on May 16, 2022.

    The Hindu side has been calling the structure in question a Shivling, while the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, which manages the Gyanvapi mosque, has been terming it a fountain.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Gyanvapi ‘Shivling’: HC gives ASI last opportunity to clarify whether carbon dating will damage object

    Gyanvapi ‘Shivling’: HC gives ASI last opportunity to clarify whether carbon dating will damage object

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    Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has granted the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) the last opportunity to file its response by April 5 clarifying whether the process of carbon dating will damage an object, claimed to be a “Shivling”, found inside the Gyanvapi mosque or safe evaluation of its age can be done.

    The Hindu petitioners have claimed the object to be a “Shivling”. The claim was disputed by the Muslim side, which said the object was part of a “fountain”.

    The court expressed its displeasure over non-filing of response by the ASI despite eight months’ time being given to it.

    The court fixed April 5 for the next hearing.

    The petitioners, Laxmi Devi and three others, have filed the present civil revision petition, challenging a Varanasi court order that had rejected the demand for carbon dating and scientific determination of the purported ‘Shivling’, found during a court-mandated survey of Gyanvapi mosque premises on May 16, 2022.

    On Monday, when the case was taken up, the counsel for the ASI sought more time to file its response as according to him, the ASI has to obtain advice from other agencies as well.

    Expressing displeasure over the delay in filing response, Justice Arvind Kumar Mishra observed, “The time extension application has already been given in the garb of obtaining advice from other agencies. Further time should not be sought by the ASI, as the ASI may take advice as it thinks appropriate by embarking upon a process which would expedite the matter. It should not be allowed to go on any further from April 5, 2023.”

    The court also directed the trial court in Varanasi, where this case is pending, to fix the date in the trial after April 5.

    The petitioners have challenged the Varanasi court’s order of October 14 last year, rejecting Hindu worshippers’ plea for conducting a scientific probe of the ‘Shivling’.

    Carbon dating is a method of calculating the age of very old objects by measuring the amounts of different forms of carbon in them.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • UP: One arrested for damaging shivling in Muzaffarnagar,

    UP: One arrested for damaging shivling in Muzaffarnagar,

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    Muzaffarnagar: The ‘shivling’ of an ancient Mahadev temple in the district’s Jansath town was found damaged, police here said on Saturday.

    A case has been registered and a man identified as Rahul was arrested, Jansath police station SHO Vishvjeet Singh told reporters.

    According to the complaint lodged by Praveen Tomar, president of the temple committee, Rahul damaged the ‘shivling’ with a hammer.

    He was identified using footage from the temple’s CCTV cameras.

    Local residents have demanded strict action against the accused.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )