By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Ahmedabad : A showcause notice has been issued by division bench of Gujarat High Court under supervision of the Chief Justice Y.R.Meena.
This showcause notice issued to the Chief Secretary and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) regarding restoration of Vali Gujarati's Dargah in Ahmedabad.
All Gujarat Minorities Association has filed a petition asking restoration of dargah.The notice should be returned on August 13, 2008.
Vali Gujarati was a famous Sufi poet of 18th century and also regarded as leader of Urdu language and literature.
He had written many poems on Ahmedabad and Surat. His dargah which was situated on Shahibaug Road raised mysteriously one morning during the post Godhra riots. Though the dargah, in the middle of the road, vanished overnight and a smooth road emerged in its place, AMC is denying its involvement in this incidence.
Advocate from the petitioner side, Mukul Sinha, has submitted that the mob of the riot had demolished the dargah near the police commissioner's office on 28th February, 2002. After the structure was demolished, the mob built a makeshift temple in its place and is named as Huladia Godharia Hannuman, he submitted.
The civic body removed the temple later and the area smoothed with tar, making it a part of the road, instead of restoring the dargah. Sinha submitted that the dargah is of historical importance. He asked that the heritage and culture of the country must be protected and
preserved.
He also said in the petition that the petitioner had visited state Government, AMC and even Human Rights Commission, several times but no one initiated for help and their negligence towards this issue compelled the petitioner to take the help of the court.