‘Unwarranted’: J&K politicians, religious leaders criticise court admitting plea on Ajmer dargah
‘It goes against the provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991,’ they said.
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Several politicians and religious leaders from Jammu and Kashmir have criticised a Rajasthan court issuing notice in a petition that claims the shrine of 13th-century Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti was built over a Shiva temple.
The move was “unwarranted” and could “result in further bloodshed”, they have said.
On Wednesday, a court in Rajasthan’s Ajmer issued a notice to the Muslim defendants in a civil suit filed by Hindu Sena chief Vishnu Gupta.
Gupta has sought directions that the Ajmer Sharif Dargah be declared as the Bhagwan Shri Sankatmochan Mahadev Virajman temple. He also sought the removal of the dargah committee from the premises and asked for a survey of the site by the Archaeological Survey of India.
On Thursday, Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti claimed that former Chief Justice DY Chandrachud opened a “Pandora’s box” that had “paved the way for surveys of these sites potentially leading to increased tension between Hindus and Muslims”.
She was referring to an order by a bench in the Supreme Court headed by Chandrachud in August 2023 that permitted a survey to be carried out at the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi to examine whether the religious structure was built on a temple.
While hearing the matter in 2022, he also maintained that ascertaining the religious character...
