In this original suit no. 610/1991, the court instructed the ASI to conduct a comprehensive survey on April 8, 2021.The AIM had challenged that order in the Allahabad High Court. However, on December 19, 2023, the HC dismissed AIM’s revision petition disputing the maintainability of the Varanasi Court’s April 8, 2021, order and directed the ASI to proceed with a thorough survey of the entire Gyanvapi mosque.The ASI had already conducted a survey of Gyanvapi in suit no. 18/2022, in which five women plaintiffs are seeking worship of Shringar Gauri and other deities in the Gyanvapi mosque compound and submitted its report on December 18, 2023.The ASI survey report was opened on court order on January 24, 2024, and advocate Rastogi was directed to study it. In compliance with the FTC’s December 30, 2023, order, Rastogi procured a copy of the ASI report, studied it, and subsequently submitted his plea to the FTC in February, of this year.
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