Allahabad High Court Verdict Today On Allowing Hindus Prayers In Gyanvapi Cellar

Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque has four 'tehkhanas' (cellars) in the basement, and one of them is still with the Vyas family.

The Allahabad High Court will today pronounce its verdict on a petition challenging the Varanasi district court's decision to allow Hindu prayers in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque.

The Varanasi district court had on January 31 ruled that a priest can offer prayers in the southern cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque.

The order was delivered on the petition of Shailendra Kumar Pathak, who said his maternal grandfather Somnath Vyas offered prayers till December 1993.