Today, one of the petitioners, named Rakhi Singh filed a petition in the Varanasi district court urging it to protect signs available in the Gyanvapi masjid complex.

Advocate Manbahadur Singh and Anupam Dwivedi, the counsel for Rakhi Singh, one of the five Hindu Women plaintiffs who filed the Shringar Gauri-Gyanvapi case, seeking permission for worship at Maa Shringar Gauri sthal.

SM Yasin, joint secretary, Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee called the allegation baseless and said, "Our counsel would respond in this matter." The petitioner's lawyer Anupam Dwivedi said court has fixed August 4 as date of hearing.

Last week, the Allahabad high court extended ongoing stay on the survey of Gyanvapi Masjid till the verdict is pronounced on August 3.

The high court had said that the July 24 Supreme Court order temporarily suspending the survey of the mosque will operate till August 3,

On July 21, the district court in Varanasi had ordered an extensive survey of the mosque by the ASI to ascertain whether it was built over a pre-existing temple, while holding that a scientific probe is necessary for truth to come out.

The district judge had directed the ASI to carry out a comprehensive survey using dating, excavation and ground penetrating radar techniques of the plot where the mosque stands next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple.