NEW DELHI: The Supreme Courtroom on Friday trashed a petition to open the sealed doorways of the traditional monument of Taj Mahal, terming it “publicity curiosity litigation” and refused to intervene with a path handed by the Allahabad excessive court docket in Could saying it is not going to entertain the plea which demanded scientific proof to determine that the Seventeenth-century construction was certainly constructed by Mughal emperor Shahjahan.
The petitioner Rajneesh Singh, a dentist by career, approached the Supreme Courtroom difficult the Could 12 order handed by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad excessive court docket which discovered the petition a “mockery” within the title of public curiosity litigation.
Dismissing the enchantment filed by Singh, the bench of justices MR Shah and MM Sundresh mentioned, “The excessive court docket made no error in dismissing your petition. That is extra of ‘publicity’ curiosity litigation.”
Singh wished an order to open the 22 closed rooms within the Taj Mahal to establish the presence of any Hindu idols. He was guided by the assumption, as he had argued within the excessive court docket, that the place the place the monument stood was as soon as a temple devoted to Lord Shiva, referred to as Tejo Mahalaya, a conspiracy principle that has been voiced beforehand.
The excessive court docket discovered no grounds to entertain the plea and mentioned, “Proper to get a analysis or research is just not made out. It’s an space for researchers or academicians and never for Courtroom.” The excessive court docket dismissed the petition as completely misconceived: “Verdict on historic facets can’t be given by court docket.”
Following the excessive court docket order, Singh additionally wrote to the Union tradition ministry and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to represent a fact-finding committee of specialists to look at the paperwork associated to the sale of land on which Taj Mahal was constructed by the Rajput king Raja Jai Singh to Mughal Emperor Shahjahan.
Singh claimed to be related to the Bharatiya Janata Get together’s (BJP) Ayodhya unit and demanded in his petition {that a} committee of specialists look at whether or not idols of Hindu gods or historic inscriptions existed within the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal.
In Could this yr, ASI mentioned the rooms weren’t sealed however merely locked to stop unauthorised entry. ASI additionally revealed on its web site, a duplicate of its January publication displaying before-after pictures of among the locked rooms the place restoration work was carried out.