The Varanasi district court on Friday rejected the Hindu side's plea for a scientific investigation into the 'Shivling', claimed to be found on the premises of the Gyanvapi mosque.
The Hindu petitioners had sought a scientific investigation to determine the age of the 'Shivling'. The court rejected the plea in view of the Supreme Court's order to protect the spot where the 'Shivling' was claimed to have been found, Live Law reported.
Hindu petitioners had during a court-mandated videography survey of the mosque premises claimed that a 'Shivling' was found close to the "wazookhana", a small reservoir used by Muslim devotees to perform ritual ablutions before offering the namaz. The claim was disputed by the Muslim side, which said the object was part of a "fountain".
Advocate Mumtaz Ahmed, who appeared for the Muslim side, said they told the court that carbon dating of the object cannot be done. If the object gets damaged in the name of carbon dating, it amounts to the defiance of the order of the Supreme Court, he had said.
- with PTI inputs
