Mosque row: ASI granted more time to submit report

Seeking more time, the counsel for ASI which was to submit the report today, told a special bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, that IIT, Kanpur, has said that it would complete the assignment by December-end.

ASI had earlier assigned the task to IIT, Kanpur, to conduct the radar survey which will do a ground penetration of the site to ascertain the depth of the structure if at all existing there.

The bench, also comprising justices Rajiv Shakdher and Justice M L Mehta, granted time to ASI till February 1 and said "ASI said some more time is required for IIT, Kanpur, to complete the task assigned to it. So, time is granted to ASI to submit the report."

The structure was allegedly built by area MLA Shoaib Iqbal at the excavation site at Subhash Park, near the Jama Masjid, where the ruins of a purported 17th century mosque were unearthed. (more)