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New Delhi: Amid claims by the Hindu side of having discovered a 'Shivling' inside the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, the Muslim side has been claiming that it is a textbook repeat of the Ayodhya issue where idols were kept inside the then mosque. And this time deliberately inside the complex, its being claimed that the "Shivling" has been discovered without waiting for the court orders. AIMIM leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi was the first to respond and even slammed the court order directing the sealing of the place where the Shivling was discovered in the survey. "This is a textbook repeat of December 1949 in Babri Masjid. This order itself changes the religious nature of the Masjid. This is a violation of the 1991 Act. This was my apprehension and it has come true. Gyanvapi Masjid was, and will remain a Masjid till judgement day, Inshallah," Owaisi said. It was alleged that in 1949, idols were kept inside the disputed Babri Mosque. However, the court in its judgement has given the land to the Ram temple, and the construction is on in full swing. The FIR on the morning of 23 December 1949, registered by the Ayodhya police following the planting of the idol of Lord Ram in the Babri Masjid on the night before, named Abhiram Das as the prime accused. Later in 1986 the locks were opened and the Hindu side was allowed to worship and subsequently in 1992 it was demolished. The Muslim side apprehends that the discovery of the 'Shivling" as claimed by the Hindu side is nothing but a fountain and the media is sensationalising the issue without putting out all the facts properly. It said that the lower court has violated the 1991 law and thus the survey itself is null and void, but experts say that the matter is now under considerati ...