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The Hindu priest was stopped from conducting rituals by assistant sub-inspector Navin Chandra Poddar, who told Goswami that he could not offer his prayers at the disputed mosque.

There are a total of eight cellars in North and South directions in the Gyanvapi complex. Six out of them have already been surveyed by the ASI whereas two cellars N1 and S1 are still closed. 

In its response, the Archaeological Survey of India attached its survey details from 1920. The Krishna Janmabhoomi temple complex was listed at number 37 among a group of 39 monuments.

ASI's Gyanvapi report reveals that inscriptions mentioning Aurangzeb's order for the mosque has been erased after 1965-66

When ASI removed debris in cellars at the Gyanvapi structure, they recovered a large number of items related to the pre-existing Hindu temple

Both parties, that is the Hindu and Muslim side, was involved in the case during the survey and, as per ASI, "support and cooperation was received from all concerned"

Advocate Hari Shankar Jain asserted that ASI report clearly stated that a temple "existed" at the site of Gyanvapi mosque and urged the government to declare it a "national monument."

":Minute study of the pillars and pilasters in corridor suggest that they were originally part of the pre-existing Hindu temple,” ASI report on Gyanvapi

According to researchers, the ongoing excavation has established Vadnagar as the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in India.

The ASI and Deccan College Pune have worked together over the past two years to complete the third phase of excavations at Rakhigarhi, led by ASI joint director Sanjay Kumar Manjul and Deccan College Pune assistant professor Prabhodh Shirwalkar.