Bhojshala: Jain plea in HC withdrawn

Indore: A writ petition filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking right to worship for the Jain community at the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula mosque complex in Dhar was withdrawn on Friday on technical grounds.
The petition, filed by Delhi-based social activist Salekchand Jain, claimed that the disputed premises once housed a Jain Gurukul and a Jain temple where idols of Goddess Ambika were installed.
Justice Pranay Verma of the Indore bench of the high court, while hearing the writ petition, orally observed that the petition has neither been submitted in a proper format nor the reason for delay in filing it has been explained.
Jain's lawyers then withdrew the petition and sought the court's permission to file a fresh application in the prescribed format.
The petition was later withdrawn after the single bench court gave its nod for it.
It (the petition) claimed that there used to be a Jain Gurukul and Jain temple in the Bhojshala premises where students were educated by Jain monks and scholars. So the people of Jain community should be given the right to worship at this place. PTI