A court hearing a plea for the relocation of the Shahi Idgah mosque from near the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple was on Monday requested to appoint a commissioner to survey the mosque to verify temple signs in it.

Petitioner Mahendra Pratap Singh, also an advocate, requested Civil Judge (Senior Division) Jyoti Singh to appoint a commissioner to survey the mosque, claiming the existence of several tell-tale signs of a temple, like those of "Om, swastika and lotus" inside the mosque besides its evident "Hindu architecture".