New Delhi, The Supreme Court docket on Monday agreed to look at a plea for repealing the Bodh Gaya Temple Act, 1949 and changing it with a central regulation for the correct management, administration and administration of Mahabodhi temple in Bihar.
The Mahabodhi Temple Advanced in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya, a UNESCO World Heritage web site, is likely one of the 4 holy areas associated to the lifetime of Lord Gautam Buddha.
Bodh Gaya is a spot the place Lord Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment.
The plea, which has additionally challenged the validity of the 1949 Act, got here up for listening to earlier than a bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh.
The petitioner’s counsel stated a plea with similar prayers was pending within the apex court docket.
The bench issued discover to the Centre and others in search of their responses on the petition and tagged it for listening to together with the pending plea.
The plea has sought to declare the 1949 Act as unconstitutional alleging it was “inconsistent” with Article 13 of the Structure.
Article 13 pertains to legal guidelines inconsistent with or in derogation of the elemental rights.
The petition has additionally sought a course to the authorities involved to take away encroachments made within the premises of the Bodh Gaya temple for the unique worship of Buddhists world wide with the intention to handle, management and administer the non secular, religion, perception and worship within the curiosity of justice.
On June 30, the apex court docket refused to entertain a separate plea difficult the vires of the 1949 Act and requested the petitioner to moved excessive court docket involved.
The 1949 Act pertains to the higher administration of the temple.
The Mahabodhi Temple Advanced contains a 50-metre excessive grand temple, the Vajrasana, the sacred Bodhi tree and 6 different sacred websites of Buddha’s enlightenment, surrounded by quite a few historic votive stupas, nicely maintained and guarded by inside, center and outer round boundaries.
A seventh sacred place, the Lotus Pond, is situated outdoors the enclosure to the south. Each the temple space and the Lotus Pond are surrounded by circulating passages at two or three ranges, and the realm of the ensemble is 5 metres beneath the extent of the encircling land.
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