Qutub Minar Mughal Mosque: The Delhi High Court directed the Archaeological Survey of India to tell whether or not the Mughal mosque positioned within the Qutub Minar complicated is a protected monument or not. The court docket was listening to a petition filed towards the ban on providing Namaz within the mosque. The court docket stated that if the mosque is included within the record of protected monuments, then it also needs to be clarified whether or not prayers will be supplied there or not.
The administration committee of the mosque had filed this petition towards the ban on providing Namaz, on which Justice Prateek Jalan was listening to. The court docket has requested the events to file their written submissions inside three weeks, together with copies of the authorities they want to depend on. Now the court docket will hear this matter on 13 October.
Court requested for data from ASI
The Court, in its order dated July 20, stated that on the premise of those submissions and the preliminary submissions made by the counsel for the ASI, it seems that, together with different points, whether or not the mosque is included within the protected space beneath the notification of January 24, 1914, whether or not there could be a ban on providing prayers there. The mosque in query, known as the Mughal Masjid, is positioned contained in the Qutub Minar complicated however separate from the Quwwatul Islam mosque, a matter pending earlier than the Saket court docket.
The petitioner gave this argument
The petitioner committee, appointed by the Delhi Waqf Board, stated the mosque was not among the many protected monuments notified by the ASI in its 1914 notification and prayers have been supplied there until Might 13, 2022. He claimed that final yr, with none discover, the authorities had stopped prayers on the mosque and the administration committee was not even knowledgeable about it. The committee termed this determination as unlawful and arbitrary.
On the similar time, the Archaeological Division stated that within the current case no prayers have been supplied contained in the Mughal mosque because it was declared a protected monument. Regardless of this, the court docket has requested the division to make clear the place.
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