3 min learnLucknowUp to date: Sep 7, 2026 08:43 AM IST
A day after a mosque within the Saharanpur collectorate compound was demolished following a district court docket’s ruling, district officers on Sunday stated that they discovered a effectively beneath the particles.
The effectively, coated by a stone slab, was discovered to be round 20 toes deep and 1.5 metres huge.
Extra District Justice of the Peace, Saharanpur, Santosh Bahadur Singh stated that as an earthmover was clearing the particles following the demolition of the mosque, it all of a sudden acquired caught on a slab. “Staff then used a cutter to interrupt open the slab, revealing the effectively beneath,” the ADM stated, including that the administration was but to resolve on its subsequent plan of action.
Sources, nonetheless, stated that the district administration is planning to name consultants from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to estimate the age of the effectively and its historic significance, if any.
At current, the effectively has been coated to forestall particles from falling in, and police groups have been deployed, and barricades have been put as much as hold outsiders from getting into the world.
The mosque was demolished three days after a district court docket dismissed an attraction in opposition to an earlier ruling that had declared the construction unauthorised, holding that it stood on authorities land.
Vikas Tyagi, on whose criticism the district administration had performed an inquiry into the mosque earlier than submitting a case within the Metropolis Justice of the Peace’s court docket, demanded {that a} detailed probe be carried out into the effectively as effectively. He demanded that an ASI staff be known as to establish what else may lie beneath the mosque.
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The mosque had been declared an “unauthorised construction” in July, when the Metropolis Justice of the Peace ordered its eviction inside 30 days. The court docket additionally imposed a penalty of Rs 6.41 crore on the “unlawful occupants” for the unauthorised occupation of the 315-square-metre parcel of presidency land, an order handed below the Uttar Pradesh Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1972.
Tanveer Ahmed, the mosque’s Mutwali, alleged that the demolition had been carried out with out due course of.
Congress MP from Saharanpur, Imran Masood, described the demolition as a “black day” for the individuals of Saharanpur, alleging that authorities had surrounded residents from all sides, confined them to their properties, and razed the mosque.
