Overview
- The Indore bench directed all parties to file objections, opinions, suggestions and recommendations on the ASI survey within two weeks from February 23, with the case listed for March 16.
- A division bench of Justices Vijay Kumar Shukla and Alok Awasthi ordered that status quo at the Bhojshala–Kamal Maula complex continue under the Supreme Court’s January 22 directive.
- The court noted the ASI report had already been opened and shared, ruled that no fresh unsealing was needed, and asked the registry to upload it to the court’s portal.
- The ASI’s nearly 100-day multidisciplinary survey produced a 10-volume report exceeding 2,000 pages and concludes the present mosque incorporates parts from earlier temples.
- Evidence cited includes more than 1,700 documented artefacts with inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Arabic and Persian, sculptures and structural remains from the Paramara era, as intervenors press a maintainability challenge and an ASI order from 2003 continues Tuesday puja and Friday namaz.