[Gyanvapi Mosque Survey Video Leak] Plaintiff Rakhi Singh Moves Varanasi District Court Seeking CBI Probe
One of the plaintiffs in the ongoing Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi Mosque dispute, Rakhi Singh has moved the Varanasi District Court seeking a CBI probe into the leak of the Gyanvapi Mosque Survey Video and pictures.It may be noted that yesterday, the district court had given the sealed copies of the survey footage to four of the five Hindu women petitioners, on the condition that they...
One of the plaintiffs in the ongoing Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi Mosque dispute, Rakhi Singh has moved the Varanasi District Court seeking a CBI probe into the leak of the Gyanvapi Mosque Survey Video and pictures.
It may be noted that yesterday, the district court had given the sealed copies of the survey footage to four of the five Hindu women petitioners, on the condition that they shall not make the content received in the Compact Disks (CDs) public.
Plaintiff Rakhi Singh has alleged that soon after the distribution of the survey footage to the four plaintiffs, the same got leaked and the videos went viral on various news channels yesterday.
Singh has further claimed that the survey footage received by the Plaintiffs yesterday in a sealed packet hasn't been opened by them and despite this, the video got leaked yesterday. She has alleged that showcasing the videos on the news channels falls under the category of a heinous crime and anti-national elements might be involved in this.
Against this backdrop, Singh has sought a CBI probe in the matter. Earlier today, 4 plaintiffs reached the Court premises to return the sealed packets.
[GyanVapi Survey Video Leak] Plaintiff Rakhi Singh moves Varanasi District Court seeking a CBI probe into the matter.Four plaintiffs have come to the Court to return the copies of the survey footage in a sealed packet.#GyanvapiTapes #GyanvapiSurvey #GyanvapiSurveyTapes pic.twitter.com/KsXQxlylAG— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) May 31, 2022
It may be noted that the Varanasi Court yesterday allowed the parties to the ongoing Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi Mosque dispute to get the copies of the videos and photographs taken by the Court-appointed survey commission. The Survey report, videos, and pictures were submitted in court on May 19.
The Court's May 30 order came with a caveat that in view of the sensitivity of the case, the videos and photographs shall be used by the parties to the dispute only for filing objections against the commissioner's report and without the permission of the court, photographs and videography will not be made public.
The Court had also made it clear that the parties in the suit only shall be provided with copies of videography and photography and the parties will also have to submit an undertaking/undertaking that it shall not be shared publically, or for unauthorized use without Court's permission.
This order had come on an application moved by the 5 Hindu women worshippers/Plaintiffs seeking copies of the commission's videography and photography. However, the Masjid Committee had opposed the demand to make the videos public.
Significantly, the Plaintiffs were handed over the video CDs yesterday, after they had given an undertaking that they shall not make it public sans court's permissions. However, shortly after submitting the report, the videos and images got leaked and the survey videos went viral. Many media portals displayed the contents of the survey videography on their news channel.
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