Lucknow. The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissed the petition seeking the opening of 22 closed rooms in the Taj Mahal in Agra. Along with this, the court has also strongly reprimanded the petitioner in this matter. BJP leader Dr Rajneesh Singh, who filed the petition on the dismissal of the petition for the survey to be conducted along with the opening of 22 rooms of the Taj Mahal, said that we will now take the matter of the survey to the Supreme Court.
A division bench of Justice DK Upadhyay and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi, reacting strongly to the petition, observed that the court cannot pass such an order under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. The Bench also pulled up the petitioner’s counsel Rudra Vikram Singh for filing the petition in a casual manner without any legal provisions. The bench also told him that the petitioner cannot tell which of his legal or constitutional rights has been violated. After the arguments when the bench was going to dismiss the petition, the counsel for the petitioner requested the court to withdraw the petition and allow it to file another fresh petition with better legal research, but the bench did not accept their request and Petition dismissed. The Lucknow Bench of the High Court has dismissed the petition filed in relation to the Taj Mahal. The court dismissed the petition as not maintainable.
A division bench of Justice DK Upadhyay and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi passed this order on a petition filed by Dr. Rajnish Kumar Singh. The court said that the demands made in the petition cannot be settled in judicial proceedings. The court further said that research in relation to the Taj Mahal is an academic work and cannot be ordered in judicial proceedings. The court has considered the matters raised in the petition and the prayer not maintainable. The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court had earlier refused to hear this petition, but on the request of the petitioner, the hearing will be held from 2 o’clock. The Lucknow Bench had indicated the closure of the matter today itself. The court clearly said that the system of public interest litigation should not be misused. You enroll yourself in a university to satisfy your curiosity, if any university forbids you to do research on such a topic then come to us.
Court reprimanded the petitioner fiercely: Justice DK Upadhyay fiercely reprimanded the petitioner’s lawyer in the court. He said that the PIL system should not be misused. Go and do research as to who built the Taj Mahal. Go to a university, do a PhD on the Taj Mahal there. Then come to court. If anyone stops us from doing research on the Taj Mahal, then come to us. He said that tomorrow you will come here and say that you have to go to the judges’ chamber. History will not be taught according to you.
Justice DK Upadhyay asked the petitioner whether the history of the country would be read according to you. When was the Taj Mahal built, who built it? Go read first. During this, Justice Upadhyay questioned the question in the courtroom. Now after lunch, the matter will be heard again in the High Court.
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