The Allahabad High Court dismissed the five suits challenging the maintainability of a case pending before a Varanasi court over the Gyanvapi row. The civil suit submitted in Varanasi court sought the restoration of the temple at the site where Gyanvapi mosque exists, stated a report in PTI. 

While pronouncing the judgement on Tuesday, Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal, stated that the suit filed before the Varanasi court in 1991 is maintainable and not barred by the Places of Religious Worship Act, 1991. The HC also directed a comprehensive survey of the Gyanvapi mosque site.