Hearing in HC on the claim that Ajmer Dargah is a Hindu temple, big update from the court

News Topical, Digital Desk : A hearing was held in the High Court on Monday (August 4) on the case claiming that Ajmer's Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah is a Hindu temple. This hearing was held on a petition filed in the Rajasthan High Court against the case going on in the Ajmer District Court demanding permission to worship. The High Court has issued notices to all the parties and asked them to file a reply within two weeks.

The Jaipur Bench of the 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. Two organizations of the khadims of the Dargah have filed this petition in the High Court. 

Demand for stay on the ongoing hearing in Ajmer District Court

In the petition filed in the High Court, a demand has been made to stop the ongoing hearing in the district court of Ajmer. The argument given is 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. Any final or interim order was asked to be passed only after the decision on the Places of Worship Act 1991.

What was said in the petition filed in the High Court?

The petition states that despite the Supreme Court's stay, the Ajmer District Court is continuously hearing the Dargah dispute case. Replies are being taken from the parties and their documents are also being taken on record. On behalf of the petitioners, their lawyer Ashish Kumar Singh presented arguments in the court on Monday.

When will the case be heard in the High Court now?

On Monday, the High Court did not stop the hearing of the case going on in the district court of Ajmer. The next hearing in the district court of Ajmer is scheduled for August 30. The case will be heard in the High Court only in the third or fourth week. It was said in the court on behalf of the Anjumans that due to the ongoing trial, the case is moving towards an interim order.

The Anjumans also said that after the Supreme Court's stay, the Ajmer district court no longer has the right to continue the hearing and all other courts in the country are also not hearing the cases and are only fixing dates.

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