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Hindu lawyer Vishnu Shankar Jain has made a number of allegations regarding the ASI investigation report on the Gyanvapi Mosque premises. On Thursday, he released the ASI investigation report and said the report revealed that there was earlier a Hindu temple at Gyambapi. He said he was given the ASI investigation report of Gyanvapi Masjid by the district magistrate’s copy division office. The total number of pages in this report is said to be 839. Vishnu Shankar held a press conference regarding the report on Thursday.

In fact, an ASI survey of the Gyambapi complex was conducted after a court order. On December 18, ASI filed a report with the district court. The Hindu side had then demanded that both sides hand over copies of the investigation report. In this regard, the district court ordered all parties to submit investigation reports on Wednesday, January 24, 2024.

Vishnu Shankar said that in the GPR investigation, the ASI had said that it can be said that there was a large and magnificent Hindu temple here, and that the large Hindu temple existed even before the present structure was built. According to ASI, the western wall of the present building is part of a large early Hindu temple. There was an existing building here, and it was built on top of it.

The Hindu side further cited the report and said that the pillars and plaster of the mosque were reused in the mosque with minor modifications. The pillars of Hindu temples were slightly modified and used in new structures. Attempts were made to erase the carvings on the pillars. Thirty-two such inscriptions belonging to old Hindu temples have been discovered here. Inscriptions in Devanagari, Telugu and Kannada have been discovered.

The Hindu lawyer said Mahamukti Mandap is a very important word in the inscription. During the investigation, a stone inscription was discovered, the broken part of which was already in the ASI. Pillars from the previous temple have been reused. Statues of Hindu gods and goddesses were found in the basement, buried beneath them with earth. It is perfectly clear that the western wall is part of a Hindu temple. The Hindu temple was demolished in his 17th century and the current building was built from the demolished remains. The pillars of the temple were rescued.

The court ordered that a hard copy of the report be handed over.

Indeed, lawyer Vishnu Shankar Jain, who appeared in court for The Hindu, continually insisted that a copy of the report should be provided via email to the parties. ASI disputed this, saying that reports could be falsified via email and could make you a victim of cyber fraud. Therefore, you only need to provide a hard copy. The Islamic side also agreed. Following this, the district judge ordered that hard copies of ASI’s Gyambapi investigation report be handed over to the parties.