The AMASR Act bars construction within 100 to 200 metres of protected monuments, leaving people living nearby stuck. An amendment is now finally set to be tabled in monsoon session of Parliament.
Court also issued directions to Archaeological Survey of India to file report on protected monument’s deficiencies and steps initiated to maintain it. Next hearing on 9 July.
ASI used the Act to claim there’s no right to worship at Qutub Minar. Hindu Sena used it to counter Places of Worship Act. ThePrint explains how the law has featured in the two cases.
Archaeological Survey of India was responding to a plea challenging a 2021 order that rejected a civil suit seeking right to worship within the Qutub Minar complex.
Culture minister Prahlad Patel said that the monuments and sites will now come under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958.
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