Hindu Sena chief Vishnu Gupta, who filed a civil lawsuit claiming that the dargah of Sufi Saint Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer was constructed over a Shiva temple, on Saturday lodged a police grievance alleging that he has acquired dying threats for submitting the petition.
Gupta stated he filed the grievance on the Barakhamba Highway police station in Delhi after he acquired two threatening calls — one from an Indian quantity and one other from Canada.
“The caller from Canada threatened to behead me for submitting the petition within the Ajmer court docket. He threatened that I’ve made a giant mistake by submitting the petition concerning Ajmer Dargah,” he stated.
Police stated that they have been trying into Gupta’s grievance.
“The grievance was filed at round 3 pm and we’re trying into it. Applicable motion will probably be taken,” a senior officer stated.
Gupta stated he wouldn’t be cowed down by such threats. He has demanded that the dargah in Rajasthan’s Ajmer be declared as Sankat Mochan Mahadev Temple and Hindus be given the suitable to worship there.
The dargah is visited by 1000’s of devotees slicing throughout spiritual strains every single day. A court docket issued notices to the Dargah committee, the Ministry of Minority Affairs and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Wednesday, in search of their response on the petition filed by Gupta.
The court docket’s transfer to simply accept the petition and notices to the three events has sparked a serious controversy, with the Muslim leaders slamming it as an try to disturb communal concord.
The event comes amid simmering tensions over a number of related temple-mosque lawsuits particularly in Uttar Pradesh.
The subsequent listening to within the Ajmer case is on December 20.