The Allahabad High Court on Thursday, 12 May, rejected a BJP leader's petition to open 22 doors of the Taj Mahal.
The petition had sought the court's direction to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to open the doors of 22 locked rooms inside the Taj Mahal so that the alleged controversy surrounding the "history of Taj Mahal" could be put to rest.
The petitioner, Dr Rajneesh Singh, the media incharge of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Ayodhya, stated that he had filed many RTIs and that he got to know about the several locked rooms in the Taj Mahal, adding that the authorities told him that entry to those rooms was barred because of security reasons, Bar and Bench reported.
He added, "If there are many hidden things under the Taj Mahal that should be in public (sic)."
A bench of Justices DK Upadhyay and Subhash Vidyarthi, while hearing the matter, told the petitioner, "If they have said that rooms are closed because of security reasons, then that's the information. If you're not satisfied, then challenge it."