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A Special Vacation Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant refused an oral mentioning to perceive connected Monday (December 22, 2025) an urgent plea to halt the Prime Minister’s Office from offering a ceremonial chadar astatine the dargah of the Sufi mystic Khwaja Moinuddin Chishtu successful Ajmer during the Urs commemorating the saint’s decease anniversary.
The lawyer making the mentioning successful tribunal said the connection of the ceremonial cloth connected behalf of the Prime Minister would nonstop a incorrect connection arsenic a suit filed by Vishnu Gupta, president of the Hindu Sena, seeking a declaration that the Ajmer dargah was built implicit an past and pre-existing Shiva temple, the ‘Bhagwan Shri Sankatmochan Mahadev Virajman Temple’, was pending successful a Rajasthan court.
“We commune for a listing contiguous itself. This is regarding the connection of chadar by the Honourable Prime Minister astatine the Ajmer Sharif Dargah today. We are seeking a enactment of that connection by the Office of the Prime Minister. There is simply a suit pending successful an Ajmer court,” the lawyer submitted.
He said the contented acrophobic lakhs of devotees. He further submitted that the connection of chadar would “prejudice the rights of the plaintiff successful the suit”.
However, Chief Justice Surya Kant refused to database the lawsuit aboriginal successful the day.
“No, I volition not database immoderate substance today. We are not listing immoderate substance the aforesaid day,” the CJI responded to the lawyer’s petition for same-day listing.
The counsel urged the tribunal to astatine slightest past database the lawsuit connected December 26.
“For that, you travel the procedure,” the Chief Justice replied.
The Chief Justice, who had assembled his Bench to urgent cases connected December 22, had earlier announced successful the tribunal country that the tribunal was consenting to assemble again either connected December 26 oregon December 29 to perceive urgent cases. The tribunal is closed for wintertime vacations till January 5, 2026.
The Rajasthan tribunal had issued notices connected the suit to the Ajmer Dargah Committee, Archeological Survey of India (ASI) and the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs precocious past year.
The suit had sought an ASI survey of the dargah premises to corroborate the beingness of remnants of the Shiva temple. The plaintiff had claimed that the architectural features and extortion plan lucifer that of a temple. It was besides alleged that a Shiva Linga existed beneath the dargah. The plaintiff had argued usurpation of Article 25 (right to religion).
In December 2024, the Supreme Court had barred civilian courts from registering caller suits oregon passing orders successful pending ones seeking to “re-claim” temples destroyed by Mughal “invaders” successful the 16th century.
The apical tribunal passed the frost bid portion agreeing to perceive petitions questioning the validity of the Places of Worship Act of 1991, a Central instrumentality which preserves the quality of spiritual places arsenic they existed connected Independence day.
The past Chief Justice, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, had made it wide that the barroom connected civilian courts would see orders to survey premises of spiritual places.
