Supreme Court rejects PIL in search of to open Taj’s 22 rooms

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday junked a plea filed by a BJP chief in search of to open 22 rooms on the Taj Mahal premises to examine the presence of Hindu idols, terming it ‘publicity interest litigation’. 

A bench of justices M R Shah and M M Sundresh refused to intrude with the Allahabad High Court’s May 12 order dismissing the plea filed by Rajnish Singh, the media in-charge of the BJP’s Ayodhya unit. Singh argued there isn’t any scientific proof to help the idea that Taj Mahal was constructed by Emperor Shahjahan. The petitioner additionally prayed {that a} fact-finding committee be set as much as examine and publish the monument’s ‘actual historical past. 

Singh had sought a directive from the court docket to the Archaeological Survey of India to open the locks of the higher and decrease a part of the monument and to take away the partitions that have been blocking the rooms. 
However, the excessive court docket mentioned the problems weren’t judicially determinable.

It additionally pulled up the petitioner’s lawyer for submitting the Public Interest Litigation in a “casual” method and mentioned it couldn’t move an order below Article 226 within the matter. Singh then moved the Supreme Court, which has now rejected the petition. 

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday junked a plea filed by a BJP chief in search of to open 22 rooms on the Taj Mahal premises to examine the presence of Hindu idols, terming it ‘publicity interest litigation’. 

A bench of justices M R Shah and M M Sundresh refused to intrude with the Allahabad High Court’s May 12 order dismissing the plea filed by Rajnish Singh, the media in-charge of the BJP’s Ayodhya unit. Singh argued there isn’t any scientific proof to help the idea that Taj Mahal was constructed by Emperor Shahjahan. The petitioner additionally prayed {that a} fact-finding committee be set as much as examine and publish the monument’s ‘actual historical past. 

Singh had sought a directive from the court docket to the Archaeological Survey of India to open the locks of the higher and decrease a part of the monument and to take away the partitions that have been blocking the rooms. 
However, the excessive court docket mentioned the problems weren’t judicially determinable.

It additionally pulled up the petitioner’s lawyer for submitting the Public Interest Litigation in a “casual” method and mentioned it couldn’t move an order below Article 226 within the matter. Singh then moved the Supreme Court, which has now rejected the petition.