The Allahabad Excessive Court docket on Thursday granted interim safety to a Hammam, a Seventeenth-century heritage web site positioned in Agra, and directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and different state authorities to make sure that no injury is finished to the monument.
The courtroom was listening to a PIL filed by one, Chandrapal Singh Rana, who sought the safety of the heritage constructing, Hammam of Ali Vardi Khan positioned in Chipitola in Agra, from the upcoming hazard of being demolished by “unlawful and unauthorised individuals”.
“…contemplating the details as disclosed within the petition and the circumstances of the case, the Commissioner of Police, Agra, Uttar Pradesh in addition to the Archaeological Survey of India, Agra Circle, 22 The Mall, Agra, U.P and the Director of Uttar Pradesh State Archeology Chhatar Manzil Campus, M.G. Street, Kaiserbagh, Lucknow shall make sure that no injury is finished to the constructing/monument. The Commissioner of Police, Agra shall additionally make sure that enough police pressure shall be deployed to guard the constructing/monument,” the Bench of Justice Salil Rai and Justice Samit Gopal stated within the order.
In the course of the listening to, the counsel of Rana informed the courtroom {that a} 12 months in the past, the ASI had carried out a survey of the heritage constructing in October 2023. “The ASI report confirms that the Hammam was in-built 1620 AD,” lawyer Vikrant Dabas informed the courtroom.
“Regardless of repetitive requests made to the respondent authorities and to the police no motion is taken and there may be chance that the whole construction can be demolished as the identical is carried on through the use of bulldozers and machines, and the whole construction can be erased inside a day or so,” the PIL learn.
The counsel additionally argued that as per the Historical Monuments and Archeological Websites and Stays Act, 1958, it’s the responsibility of the ASI together with the State authorities to guard the 400-year-old Hammam from being demolished.
The Excessive Court docket listed the matter to be heard afresh on January 27, 2025, by an applicable bench. “The matter shall not be handled as tied up or half heard to this Bench,” the courtroom stated in its order.
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