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SC rejects plea for barring PM Modi from offering 'chadar' at Ajmer dargah
Jan-05-2026

The Supreme Court (SC) dismissed a petition to restrain Prime Minister Narendra Modi from offering ceremonial chadar at the tomb of Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chisti during the 814th annual Urs at Ajmer Sharif Dargah.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi refused to entertain the plea, which also challenged the extension of state-sponsored ceremonial honour and symbolic recognition to Islamic scholar Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti and to the Ajmer Dargah by the Union government and its instrumentalities.

The Bench said that the issue was not one which can be decided by court. The Bench also said that the issue has become infructuous since the chadar offering had already been made. The top court further clarified that the dismissal of the writ petition will not have any bearing on the pending civil suit. 

Offering of chadar at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah is a tradition which has been followed by past Prime Ministers as well.

A similar plea had been filed before an Ajmer court earlier this year. That application was filed by then Hindu Sena President Vishnu Gupta and was part of an ongoing suit before the Ajmer court alleging that the Ajmer Sharif Dargah was constructed on the site of a demolished Shiva temple. Gupta had argued that the Central government by sending a chadar to a ‘disputed structure’ was undermining judicial independence and right to fair trial, when a case related to it is pending before the trial court.
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