Shringar Gauri

Gyanvapi mosque case: Videography survey resumes amid heavy police deployment

The mosque management committee has indicated that it will cooperate for now with the team assigned the task by a local court

Court allows videography inside Varanasi's Gyanvapi Mosque: A look at the case, the verdict, and past controversies

The mosque first grabbed headlines in 1991 when devotees claimed that it was built at the site of a temple, demolished in 1669 on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Since then, the place of worship has been wrangled in legal troubles

UP: Court commissioner's team reaches Gyanvapi mosque for its survey, police beef up security

Before the arrival of the court commissioner and his team here, a large crowd of devotees had gathered for Friday prayers