A Rajasthan courtroom on Wednesday issued discover in a lawsuit filed by Hindu teams that alleged a Hindu temple existed underneath the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti shrine at Ajmer and sought worshipping rights on the spot.
The Ajmer Sharif dargah in Rajasthan. (File Picture)
Civil choose Manmohan Chandel heard the case filed by Vishnu Gupta, the nationwide president of the Hindu Sena, in September underneath the title “Bhagwan Shri Sankat Mochak Mahadev Virajman vs. Dargah Committee.”
The courtroom issued notices to the Union ministry of minority affairs, the Ajmer Dargah Committee, and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which has been made a celebration to this swimsuit.
The subsequent listening to is scheduled for December 20.
The petitioner’s counsel, Ramswaroop Bishnoi, cited a 1911 e book titled Ajmer: Historic and Descriptive by retired choose Harvilas Sharda, who claimed that particles from a Hindu temple had been used within the building of the dargah.
In line with the e book, a sanctum or basement existed throughout the dargah, reportedly housing a Shiva Lingam that was beforehand worshiped by a Brahmin household. The e book additionally talked about remnants of a Jain temple being a part of the dargah’s construction and described components of temple particles within the building of its 75-feet-tall buland darwaza.
Bishnoi mentioned that the petitioner earlier submitted a memorandum to ASI, requesting a survey of the dargah. The petition primarily sought permission to carry out rituals and worship on the Shiva Lingam purportedly positioned within the basement of the dargah.
Reacting to the event, secretary of the Anjuman Committee (the physique of Khadim), Syed Sarwar Chishti, questioned the purpose of pursuing such issues now, and referring to former CJI Chandrachud’s earlier commentary that the Locations of Worship Act of 1991, which declares that the established order of non secular locations, will stay because it was in 1947 (aside from the Babri Masjid). “We have been serving here for more than 800 years, through various periods… and nothing has ever happened before… this is not in the country’s best interest. This Dargah belongs to Khawaja Garib Nawaz and will remain so,” he mentioned.
He additional questioned the courtroom discover to ASI, saying that it “does not have jurisdiction over the dargah, as it comes under the Ministry of Minorities”.
The event comes amid simmering tensions in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district, the place 4 folks died on Sunday after a civil courtroom directed the advocate commissioner to conduct a survey of the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid. In Sambhal too, Hindu teams had claimed that the mosque was constructed after razing a Hindu temple in 1529.
Comparable proceedings are additionally ongoing in courts in Varanasi and Mathura over claims by Hindu teams that temples had been razed to construct the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi and the Shahi Eidgah in Mathura.