Qutub Minar Case: What is the whole matter?

S Venkateshwari
Qutub Minar Case: What is the whole matter?


A petition related to the demand for permission to worship in the Qutub Minar complex is to be heard in Delhi's Saket court today. In the last hearing, the lawyer of Mahendra Dhwaja prasad Singh, who had sought to make himself a party, did not reach the court. Thereafter the hearing was adjourned. The petition which is to be heard in the court today, in which a person has told the land from agra to meerut as his ancestral heritage and in this sense has also told his right over Qutub Minar. Many more petitions related to Qutub Minar are also being heard.

  What happened in the Qutub Minar case?

Controversy continues over Delhi's Qutub Minar. The Hindu organization has filed a petition that Qutub Minar has been built by demolishing 27 Hindu deities and Jain temples. Therefore, worship should be allowed in it. In the petition, Qutub Minar has been described as a vishnu pillar. The petition has demanded the restoration of this temple. The ASI has rejected the claim of being a temple. ASI's advocate Subhash Gupta had said that there was no ground to tamper with the court's order. A new petition has been filed in the court regarding its ownership. The court will now hear the ownership petition today.

It has been argued on behalf of the Hindu side that the mosque built inside the Qutub Minar has been built by destroying 27 temples of Hindu and Jain religion. It has been said in the petition that there should be permission to recite worship by installing idols there again. Bhagwan Goel, the international working president of United Hindu Front, claimed that the Qutub Minar was a 'Vishnu pillar' built by the 'great king Vikramaditya'.


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