Allahabad high court’s Justices DK Upadhyay and Subhash Vidyarthi said; Please enroll in an MA program, then apply for NET and JRF, and if any university refuses to allow you to conduct research on such a topic, come to us”.
A plea to open 22 locked rooms of the Taj Mahal was denied by the Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench on Thursday. “Tomorrow you will come and ask us to go to chambers of honorable judges?” a panel of Justices DK Upadhyay and Subhash Vidyarthi reprimanded the petitioner. Please do not make a mockery of the PIL system.
Rajneesh Singh, the BJP’s youth media in charge, filed a petition in the Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow Bench, on 8th May requesting that the Archaeological Survey of India investigate the Taj Mahal’s 22 closed doors for the presence of Hindu deity idols.
The petitioner stated that there was a truth about the Taj Mahal that the country’s inhabitants needed to know.
“I’ve also submitted numerous RTIs. I learned of several rooms that had been locked, and the authorities claimed that they were locked for security reasons.” He stated that the closed rooms were his concern and that everyone should know what was beyond those doors.
He explained, “I’m not on the fact that the land belongs to Lord Shiva or Allah-o-Akbar.”
The court stated that such discussions belong in the drawing-room, not the courtroom;
The State argued that the court lacked jurisdiction over the case. Its lawyers argued, “No jurisdiction exists, therefore the petitioner does not have territorial jurisdiction. In Agra, a lawsuit has already been filed.”The Court voiced its dissatisfaction with the plea as well, adding,
“Is it possible to argue these points in a court of law? Do we have such training and equipment as judges?”
In response to the petitioner’s argument about the “right to information,” the Court queried if the requested study was related to the right to information in any manner.
The Bench made a point of saying, “Go and research. Do M.A. Do Ph.D. Then choose such a topic and if any institute disallows you to research on such a topic. Then come to us. Please enroll yourself in MA, then go for NET, JRF and if any university denies you to research on such topic then come to us.”
This isn’t the first time that such allegations about the “Tejo Mahalaya” have been brought to court. The Central government claimed in 2017 in response to a complaint filed in Agra by six advocates claiming that the Taj Mahal is the Tejo Mahalaya Temple palace that the allegation is “concocted” and “self-built.”
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