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Court appoints observers to supervise excavations

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW MARCH 26. The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court today dismissed a petition moved by a plaintiff, Mohammed Hashim Ansari, to stop excavations near the disputed site in Ayodhya to uncover any likely evidences of existence of a temple at the place where the Babri mosque had stood before its demolition.

Mr. Ansari had filed a petition seeking on various grounds review and recall of the High Court directives to the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct excavations.

On another petition filed on behalf of the Sunni Central Waqf Board, the court has appointed two observers to supervise excavation activities.

The court held as premature a plea by the ASI to grant it two and a half months' more time to complete the excavations. The one-month time deadline to the ASI would be over on April 12. Meanwhile on April 7 the ASI would submit its second report on the progress of excavations.

The organisation could make a plea to seek more time at that date, if needed, the court said.

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