AIM, Shringar Gauri plaintiff no. 1 oppose shivling’s carbon dating

Varanasi: The Anjuman Intezamia Masajid — the Gyanvapi mosque management committee — and Rakhi Singh, plaintiff no. 1 in the Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri case, on Thursday jointly opposed the demand of plaintiffs 2 to 5 of carbon-dating of the ‘shivling’ found in the ablution pond of Gyanvapi mosque during a court commission survey on May 16.
While the AIM maintained that the demand was premature till the court commission report on survey of Gyanvapi is disposed of, plaintiff no. 1 said that in Sanatan tradition, broken idols can’t be worshipped and damage to the ‘shivling’ was possible during the examination.
The objection was raised when the court of district judge Ajay Krishna Vishvesha was hearing case no. 18/2022 Rakhi Singh vs state of UP and others in which five Hindu women have sought the right to daily worship Shringar Gauri and other deities in the Gyanvapi mosque compound.