A few days back a petition was filed in the Allahabad High Court to open the 20 closed doors of the Taj Mahal. And today the petition was heard in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday. A division bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi dismissed the petition while hearing the case today at 2:15 pm. The petition was filed by Rajneesh Singh of Ayodhya. The petition claimed historian PN Oak's book, Taj Mahal, claiming that the Taj Mahal is actually Tejomahalaya, which was built by King Parmardi Dev in 1212 AD. The petition also claimed that there is a temple of Lord Shiva within the closed doors of the Taj Mahal. The petition also mentioned the recent controversy of Jagatguru Paramahamsa of Ayodhya going there and stopping them due to ...
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Petition Filed In Allahabad High Court To Open 22 Closed Rooms In Taj Mahal
The BJP approached the court seeking the reopening of '22 houses' locked in the Taj Mahal. At the same time, they have requested to form a fact-finding team to check whether there was any temple in this monument. The media in-charge of the BJP's Ayodhya branch, Rajneesh Singh filed the petition in the registry of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Saturday. "I have applied to the court to open 22 closed rooms in the Taj Mahal," Rajneesh told PTI on Sunday. Whatever the truth, it should be made public." Incidentally, extremist Hindu groups claim that the Taj Mahal is actually a Shiva temple called 'Tejo Mahalaya'. The petition said that a fact-finding team should submit a report to know the history of the monument under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). On...
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