‘Baseless’: ASI Slams Petitioner Claiming Ownership of Qutub Minar

In relation to an appeal seeking the restoration of deities inside the alleged temple complex within the Qutub Minar property, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Wednesday, 24 August, opposed an intervention petition before a Delhi court which claimed ownership of the Qutub Minar property.

The ASI stated that the intervention petition was “baseless and devoid of any logical or legal reasoning.”

The intervenor, Kunwar Mahender Dhwaj Pratap Singh, in a petition filed on 9 June claimed that he was the heir of the United Province of Agra and the owner of lands in several cities in and around Delhi, including the property of Qutub Minar.