{"id":60494,"date":"2025-03-22T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=60494"},"modified":"2025-03-22T06:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T06:40:20","slug":"pil-filed-in-bombay-high-court-seeking-demolition-of-aurangzebs-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/pil-filed-in-bombay-high-court-seeking-demolition-of-aurangzebs-tomb\/","title":{"rendered":"PIL Filed in Bombay High Court Seeking Demolition of Aurangzeb\u2019s Tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"460\">A journalist-turned-activist, <strong data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"129\">Ketan Tirodkar<\/strong>, has filed a <strong data-start=\"143\" data-end=\"179\">Public Interest Litigation (PIL)<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"187\" data-end=\"208\">Bombay High Court<\/strong>, seeking the <strong data-start=\"222\" data-end=\"271\">demolition of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb\u2019s tomb<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"301\">Khuldabad, Maharashtra<\/strong>. The petition argues that the tomb <strong data-start=\"337\" data-end=\"396\">lacks the status of a monument of &#8220;national importance&#8221;<\/strong> under the <strong data-start=\"407\" data-end=\"457\">Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Act, 1958<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"\" data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"502\"><strong data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"500\">Key Arguments in the Petition<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul data-start=\"503\" data-end=\"1073\">\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"503\" data-end=\"625\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"505\" data-end=\"625\">The petition urges the court to <strong data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"582\">direct the ASI to delist Aurangzeb\u2019s tomb<\/strong> from the register of national monuments.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"626\" data-end=\"799\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"628\" data-end=\"799\">It argues that the site <strong data-start=\"652\" data-end=\"709\">does not qualify under Section 3 of the ASI Act, 1958<\/strong>, which defines <strong data-start=\"725\" data-end=\"796\">ancient monuments and archaeological sites of national significance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"955\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"802\" data-end=\"955\">According to the petition, <strong data-start=\"829\" data-end=\"852\">national importance<\/strong> should mean <strong data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"952\">a site that holds value for the entire country, not just a specific group or region<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"956\" data-end=\"1073\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"958\" data-end=\"1073\">It further asserts that the <strong data-start=\"986\" data-end=\"1070\">historical impact of the site should be viewed positively for future generations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/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":1,"featured_media":60495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60494","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60496,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60494\/revisions\/60496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}