Lucknow, 12/5: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Thursday rejected a petition seeking a directive to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to open the closed rooms inside the Taj Mahal. The plea had sought to ascertain if there were Hindu idols and scriptures to validate the claim that the ‘Monument of Love’, as contended by the saffron activists, was ‘Tejo Mahal’, a Shiva Temple.
A double bench comprising Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi also rebuked the petitioner Rajanish Kumar Singh, who claimed to be the media in-charge of BJP’s Ayodhya district unit, and asked him to get himself admitted to some university and do research on Taj Mahal. The bench also warned him not to misuse PILs for such purposes.
The court found the petition ”not maintainable” and said that the demands made in the petition could only be ascertained through an ”academic research” and not judicial orders.
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