An Indian court in the state of Rajasthan has accepted a petition from a right-wing Hindu group claiming that the shrine of a revered Muslim Sufi saint and philosopher is sitting on top of a temple for the Hindu god, Shiva.

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 local court on Wednesday took up a plea filed by a Hindu outfit's leader claiming a Shiva temple exists within Ajmer's Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah shrine.

Vishnu Gupta has in the past filed a suit on behalf of Bal Krishna in the Mathura dispute. He also had a ‘havan’ for Donald Trump’s success in the United States presidential election of 2016.

The suit asks for the Union government to be directed to construct the Bhagwan Shri Sankatmochan Mahadev temple at the site.

A court in Rajasthan's Ajmer has issued notices to several authorities on a petition seeking a physical survey of Ajmer Dargah. The petitioner cited a book to say that the Ajmer Dargah was originally a Shiva temple.

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 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