{"id":306815,"date":"2018-12-10T08:36:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T08:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306815"},"modified":"2018-12-10T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T08:36:23","slug":"delhi-hc-issues-notice-to-centre-state-over-pil-seeking-womens-entry-in-nizamuddin-dargah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-hc-issues-notice-to-centre-state-over-pil-seeking-womens-entry-in-nizamuddin-dargah\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC issues notice to centre, state over PIL seeking women\u2019s entry in Nizamuddin Dargah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306817 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/nizamuddin-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/nizamuddin-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/nizamuddin-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/nizamuddin-696x462.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/nizamuddin-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/nizamuddin.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi High Court (HC) on December 10\u00a0has\u00a0issued notices to the Centre, AAP government and the Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah trust as well on a petition seeking entry of women into the sanctum sanctorum of Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The HC bench comprising Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao also issued a notice to the trust managing the shrine and sought their stand by April 11, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The petition sought to frame guidelines ensuring entry of women into the Dargah and declaring the bar as highly \u201cunconstitutional\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The petition in Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah case was filed on December 6 by a group of women law students hailing from Pune requesting the Centre and other related authorities to remove the ban on the entry of women into the shrine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The petition claimed that the law students tried to reach out to authorities, including the Delhi Police, but decided to move the court after not receiving any response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The petition also cited the example of two major Muslim shrines \u2014 Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai and Khwaja Moinuddin Dargah in Ajmer \u2014 that allow entry of women.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court (HC) on December 10\u00a0has\u00a0issued notices to the Centre, AAP government and the Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah trust as well on a petition seeking entry of women into the sanctum sanctorum of Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah. The HC bench comprising Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[304,449,1594,10190,10189,10191,10192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306818,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306815\/revisions\/306818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}