Supreme Court refused to interfere with the order passed by the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court transferring Gyanvapi Case to a different bench
The application could reportedly be taken up on August 4, Friday, according to Advocate Rajesh Mishra, the special counsel in the Gyanvapi cases in the Varanasi district court.
The Gyanvapi survey, which began on 24th July, three days after the Varanasi district court order, was put on hold by the High Court as the matter was still being heard in the Supreme Court.
A petition was filed in a court here last Tuesday seeking an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) survey of the entire premises of the Gyanvapi complex, and not only the "shivling" as ordered by the Allahabad High Court.
Within a year of the inauguration of the Kashi Vishwanath Dham corridor, the iconic temple saw a record-breaking five-fold increase in donations from devotees