A petition was filed in an Agra court docket searching for prohibitory injunction towards the remark of the ‘Urs’ at Taj Mahal by a right-wing organisation, Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha. The organisation has additionally challenged free entry contained in the Taj Mahal for ‘Urs’. The court docket has accepted the petition and can hear the matter on March 4, in accordance with PTI.
The celebration of three-day ‘Urs’ will happen this 12 months from February 6 to February 8. The interval marks the loss of life of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who ordered the development of the Taj Mahal in 1653 on the banks of Yamuna in Agra.
Petitioner’s counsel Anil Kumar Tiwari mentioned, “On Friday, the petitioner ABHM by means of its divisional head Meena Diwakar and district president Saurabh Sharma filed a petition within the Court docket of IV Extra Civil Decide (Junior Division) Room No 4 at Civil Court docket premises in Agra”.
He additional added that the petitioner has looked for everlasting prohibitory injunction towards the committee celebrating the ‘Urs’. The appropriate-wing organisation additionally objects to free entry on the Taj Mahal for ‘Urs’.
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ABHM spokesperson Sanjay Jat contended that the physique had filed the petition based mostly on a Proper to Info act (RTI). The RTI revealed that neither the Mughals, nor the British allowed ‘Urs’ to happen contained in the Taj, as per PTI report. The RTI filed by Raj Kishore Raje, an historian of Agra metropolis asking the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) who permitted ‘Urs’ celebration and ‘Namaz’ in Taj Mahal premises.
Jat mentioned, ASI replied to the RTI stating that neither Mughals, nor the British authorities or the Authorities of India have allowed ‘Urs’ celebration within the Taj Mahal. Based mostly on this, the ABHM has filed the petition searching for the prohibitory injunction, stopping the organisers of Shahjahan ‘Urs’ Celebration Committee, headed by Saiyyad Ibrahim Zaidi, from celebrating the ‘Urs’ at Taj Mahal.
The three-day Urs sees the rituals of ‘chadar poshi’, ‘sandal’, ‘gusul’, ‘kul’ and others. On the final day of the ‘Urs’, a ‘chadar’ 1,880-metre-long or extra is obtainable.
In response to the Hindustan Occasions, this matter has been raised earlier than varied courts on this problem. Nevertheless, within the current previous, the excessive court docket of Allahabad refused to simply accept petitions with such claims by proper wing organisations and people.