Wuzukhana at Gyanvapi to be cleaned tomorrow: DM

“The Supreme Court has directed for cleaning the wuzukhana area. We have spoken to both parties and it will be done on Saturday… Only cleaning will be done,” the DM said.

Meanwhile, the Varanasi District Court had on Wednesday appointed the district magistrate of Varanasi as the receiver of the southern cellar of Gyanvapi mosque in the case filed by the head priest of Acharya Ved Vyas Peeth temple Shailendra Kumar Pathak, while the plea of advocate Vijay Shankar Rastogi to become a party of Vyas’s suit was rejected the same day.

Last month, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) had submitted its report on a scientific survey it had undertaken at the Gyanvapi mosque complex in a Varanasi court that had ordered it to ascertain whether the mosque was “constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple”.