{"id":1319,"date":"2025-03-22T07:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:15:38","slug":"pil-filed-in-bombay-high-court-seeking-demolition-of-aurangzebs-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"PIL Filed in Bombay High Court Seeking Demolition of Aurangzeb\u2019s Tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A journalist-turned-activist, <strong>Ketan Tirodkar<\/strong>, has filed a <strong>Public Interest Litigation (PIL)<\/strong> in the <strong>Bombay High Court<\/strong>, seeking the <strong>demolition of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb\u2019s tomb<\/strong> in <strong>Khuldabad, Maharashtra<\/strong>. The petition argues that the tomb <strong>lacks the status of a monument of &#8220;national importance&#8221;<\/strong> under the <strong>Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Act, 1958<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Arguments in the Petition<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The petition urges the court to <strong>direct the ASI to delist Aurangzeb\u2019s tomb<\/strong> from the register of national monuments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It argues that the site <strong>does not qualify under Section 3 of the ASI Act, 1958<\/strong>, which defines <strong>ancient monuments and archaeological sites of national significance<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>According to the petition, <strong>national importance<\/strong> should mean <strong>a site that holds value for the entire country, not just a specific group or region<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It further asserts that the <strong>historical impact of the site should be viewed positively for future generations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist-turned-activist, Ketan Tirodkar, has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court, seeking the demolition of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb\u2019s tomb in Khuldabad,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}