NEW DELHI: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) chief Alok Kumar on Friday agreed with the Supreme Court’s order in the Gyanvapi mosque case and claimed that the Hindu side will be able to prove that the Shivling found is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas. “We agree with the Supreme Court that this matter is complicated and requires a serious and experienced judge. The court has said the district court will look into it. We agree with the Supreme Court,” he said.
The VHP chief said that they will be able to prove that the ‘Shivling’ found inside the Gyanvapi mosque is one of the Jyotirlingas. “We believe that it is a Shivling because the Nandi is looking at it and the location suggests that it is one of the original Jyotirlingas, out of the 12 Jyotirlingas and the wajukhana of the Gyanvapi mosque complex has been built over the ruins of the desecrated old temple invaded by the Mughals. We will be able to prove it to the court and the Supreme Court will decide this case. The judge has been authorised to take the local commissioner’s report and we will prove it is the original Jyotirlinga,” he said.
The VHP leader further claimed that the Places of Worship Act, 1991, will not be applicable to the Gyanvapi mosque case. “I do not believe it will be applicable in this, because the Act says that if the religious place works on another Act, then this Act is not effective. There is already a separate law for Kashi Vishwanath temple and the Supreme Court has also indicated that the Act does not prevent the trial of this matter.”
On Friday, the Supreme Court ordered the transfer of the Gyanvapi mosque case from the civil judge to the district judge, Varanasi. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and P S Narasimha said that a “senior and experienced” judicial officer of the Uttar Pradesh higher judicial service should examine the case. The bench said the district judge should decide the maintainability of the civil suit in the Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath on priority, as sought by Committee of Management Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Varanasi. (ANI)