Ajmer Dargah dispute: Petition filed demanding to stop the trial, HC seeks response from Center and ASI:

News Topical, Digital Desk : Claiming that Ajmer's Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah is a Hindu temple, a demand was made to allow worship there. A petition was filed in the Rajasthan High Court against this case going on in the Ajmer District Court, which was heard on Monday (August 4).

The High Court has issued notice to all the parties in this case and asked them to file their reply within two weeks. The Jaipur Bench of Rajasthan High Court has issued notice to the Ministry of Minority Affairs of the Government of India, Archaeological Survey of India and Vishnu Sharma, the president of Hindu Sena, who filed the case in Ajmer Court.

Demand to stop the hearing of the district court:
In this case, two organizations of the khadims of the Dargah have filed a petition in the High Court. In the petition, a demand has been made to stop the hearing going on in the district court of Ajmer.

It has been argued on behalf of the petitioners that in the case of Ashwini Kumar, the Supreme Court has forbidden all the courts of the country from issuing any interim order in the ongoing dispute regarding religious places.

'Hearing is going on despite the Supreme Court's stay'
Any final or interim order was asked to be passed only after the decision on the Places of Worship Act 1991. The petition states that despite the Supreme Court's stay, the Ajmer District Court is continuously hearing the Dargah dispute case. Answers are being taken from the parties and their documents are also being taken on record.

On behalf of the petitioners, their advocate Ashish Kumar Singh presented arguments in the court. The High Court has not stayed the hearing of the case going on in the district court of Ajmer today. According to the advocate of the Anjumans, Ashish Kumar Singh, the next hearing in the district court of Ajmer is scheduled on August 30, while the hearing of the case in the High Court will take place only in the third or fourth week.

'Ajmer District Court has no right to hear the case'
According to advocate Ashish Kumar Singh, it has been said in the court on behalf of the Anjumans that the ongoing trial is moving the case towards an interim order, while after the Supreme Court's stay, the Ajmer District Court has no right to continue the hearing. He says that all the other courts of the country are also not hearing the case and are only fixing dates.