A court in Rajasthan has issued a notice in a lawsuit filed by Hindu groups, alleging that a Hindu temple exists beneath the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti shrine at Ajmer and seeking worship rights at the site.

A court in Ajmer, Rajasthan issued a notice on (27 November) to the defendants in a civil suit alleging that the Ajmer Dargah, the tomb of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, was built over a Shiva temple and should be declared the Bhagwan Shri Sankatmochan Mahadev Virajman Temple.

An Ajmer court has issued notices to the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) regarding a lawsuit filed by a Hindu organization claiming that a Shiva temple existed at the site of the revered Ajmer Sharif Dargah before the shrine was built.

Civil Judge Manmohan Chandel issued notices after Hindu Sena chief Vishnu Gupta claimed in his petition that the dargah -- the mausoleum of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti -- was a Shiva temple.

A day after a court in Ajmer issued notices in a civil suit claiming that there is a Shiva temple in the dargah of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Thursday termed the development as "worrisome" and wondered where the country was being taken for political dividends.

A local court in Ajmer on Wednesday directed that notice be issued to three parties in a civil suit which claims that there is a Shiva temple in the dargah of sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, the plaintiff's advocate said.

A Hindu group has claimed the existence of a Shiva temple within the Ajmer Dargah. The court will hear the case on December 20.

A Hindu group, Hindu Sena, has filed a lawsuit claiming the Ajmer Sharif Dargah was built over a Shiva temple. The petitioner demanded that its survey should be done through ASI and that Hindus should be given the right to worship there.

The petitioner’s counsel, Ramswaroop Bishnoi, cited a 1911 book titled Ajmer: Historical and Descriptive which claimed that debris from a Hindu temple were used in the construction of the dargah.

A Hindu group, Hindu Sena, has filed a lawsuit claiming the Ajmer dargah, a Sufi shrine, was built over a Shiva temple. They cite historical texts and

A Rajasthan court on Wednesday accepted a petition by a right-wing outfit claiming Ajmer's Dargah Sharif was a Shiva temple in a growing list of Muslim religious sites under dispute