The District Court made the ASI survey report of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi complex public on Thursday. After this the Hindu side claimed that according to the ASI survey report it was proved that it was a Hindu temple only. But the Muslim side refuted this and said that there is nothing new in the survey report. Besides, questions have also been raised on the mythology of the idols found there. Muslim side’s lawyer Akhlaq Ahmed said that after a cursory look at the survey report, whatever photographs are there are old ones which had come out during the time of Advocate Commission. There are no new photos. The only difference is that earlier photographs were shown only by taking them, now they have been measured and shown in writing. No new evidence has been found. Regarding digging, he said that he was forbidden to do so. The ASI director had also filed an affidavit saying that excavation would not be done. But he has got the debris in the western part of the temple cleaned. We got the benefit from that that there were two tombs on our land and they have also been opened. He took out some soil from the southern basement and when nothing was found, he left the soil in the same manner. On the claim of the Hindu side that the western wall is the wall of the temple, Akhlaq Ahmed said that this is wrong. There is no such statue in the western wall so that it can be said that it is a temple.
This is the claim of Hindu side
Let us tell you that while making public the ASI survey report conducted in Gyanvapi complex through media, Hindu side’s advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain said that it has become clear that it is not a mosque but a temple. Vishnu Shankar Jain said that in the survey report, the dome of Gyanvapi Mosque has been found to be only 350 years old from the time of Aurangzeb. Religious symbols along with idols of Hindu deities have been found in the Gyanvapi complex, which has already been criticized by the Hindu side. Vishnu Shankar Jain also said that in the ASI survey report, it has been said that the western wall of Gyanvapi will be built in temple wall and Nagara style. The western wall of the city style is about 5 thousand years old and under the wall there are remains about a thousand years old.