VARANASI: The court verdict allowing worship of Shringar Gauri and other Hindu deities to resume inside the southern cellar of Gyanvapi after three decades came on Varanasi district judge Ajaya Krishna Vishvesha‘s last day at work, capping a stint in which he issued over a dozen orders linked to cases involving the disputed site.
It was Vishvesha who directed ASI in July last year to do a scientific survey of the Gyanvapi compound, which has been embroiled in a title dispute since 1991.The original suit has spawned multiple litigations, including the main Shringar Gauri case that the now-retired district judge had been hearing since 2022.
ASI’s report, copies of which were recently handed over to both sides, purportedly states that a Hindu temple existed where Gyanvapi Masjid now stands.
Vishvesha took over as district judge in Aug 2021, less than a year before SC ordered that the Shringar Gauri case be transferred from the senior-division civil judge’s court to his. He would subsequently take over and club seven other cases linked to Gyanvapi.
Born in 1964 in Haridwar, Vishvesha is a science graduate.
Vishvesha’s first judicial assignment was in the munsiff court at Kotdwar.
After taking over the Shringar Gauri case, Vishvesha‘s first order was on June 8, 2022, when he rejected a plea by Jyotish Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand, seeking permission to worship the purported Shivling found in the ablution pond of Gyanvapi during a court-mandated survey.
It was Vishvesha who directed ASI in July last year to do a scientific survey of the Gyanvapi compound, which has been embroiled in a title dispute since 1991.The original suit has spawned multiple litigations, including the main Shringar Gauri case that the now-retired district judge had been hearing since 2022.
ASI’s report, copies of which were recently handed over to both sides, purportedly states that a Hindu temple existed where Gyanvapi Masjid now stands.
Vishvesha took over as district judge in Aug 2021, less than a year before SC ordered that the Shringar Gauri case be transferred from the senior-division civil judge’s court to his. He would subsequently take over and club seven other cases linked to Gyanvapi.
Born in 1964 in Haridwar, Vishvesha is a science graduate.
Vishvesha’s first judicial assignment was in the munsiff court at Kotdwar.
After taking over the Shringar Gauri case, Vishvesha‘s first order was on June 8, 2022, when he rejected a plea by Jyotish Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand, seeking permission to worship the purported Shivling found in the ablution pond of Gyanvapi during a court-mandated survey.
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