Court rejects plea claiming Sheikh Badruddin’s dargah and the graveyard at “Lakshagriha”

On Monday, a court in Baghpat denied a decades-old appeal from a Muslim side about a location that Muslims claim is a dargah and cemetery belonging to Sufi saint Sheikh Badruddin, but Hindu followers claim is the ancient “Lakshagriha” of Mahabharat.

Civil Judge Junior Division of the District and Session Court of Baghpat Shivam Dwivedi denied the plea, stating that there was neither a cemetery nor a dargah at the location in Barnawa, according to counsel Ranveer Singh Tomar, who represented the defendants in the case.

The plaintiff’s attorney, Shahid Khan, said that they will appeal to a higher court and make their case.

According to Tomar, the Muslim side planned to claim 100 bighas of Lakshagriha land by calling it a dargah and a cemetery.

He remarked, “We brought all of Lakshagriha’s evidence before the court, and that’s why the Muslim side’s petition was denied.”

Tomar said that Brahmachari Krishnadutt Maharaj, the man who founded the Lakshagriha Gurukul, was named as a respondent in the 1970 petition brought by Mukeem Khan, a resident of Barnawa, in his position as an office bearer of the Waqf Board in a Meerut court.

This case was pending at the Baghpat court after Meerut.

Krishnadutt Maharaj and Mukeem Khan, the original plaintiffs, are both deceased.