Hindus have the right to approach courts and seek survey of mosques because it is a truth that many of them were built on ruins of temples demolished by Mughal invaders, Union minister Giriraj Singh said on Thursday.

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.

A court in Rajasthan's Ajmer has issued notices to the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)

A massive political row erupted over a plea in a court, claiming the presence of a Shiva temple in the dargah of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer. While AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi accused the government and RSS of “weakening the rule of law" in the country,

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