It feels like it’s only yesterday when women fought for their right to enter the Lord Aiyyapa shrine and won. In the light of the same event, a few law-students from Pune filed a plea in Delhi High Court saying they were discriminated based on gender while they tried to access the Hazrat Nizamuddin shrine.
These law students were in Delhi to visit the Nizamuddin Dargah but found out that it did not permit women to enter the main shrine. The petition filed claims that the law students tried to reach out to the authorities over the matter, including Delhi Police. But on not receiving any response from then, they moved to the high court.
The PIL, that is likely to come up for hearing this week, claims that a notice is put up outside the dargah that states that women are not allowed inside.
Nizamuddin Dargah by its very nature is a public place and prohibition of entry of anyone in public place on the basis of gender is contrary to the framework of the Constitution of India. The plea filed by these women also said that various other shrines like Ajmer Sharif Dargah and Haji Ali Dargah did not prohibit entry of women.
Apart from the center, the Delhi government and the police, a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice VK Rao also issued a notice to the trust managing the dargah and sought their stand on the plea by April 11, 2019.
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