{"id":182858,"date":"2025-09-05T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=182858"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:42:20","slug":"delhi-hc-questions-selective-targeting-of-muslim-shrines-by-hindutva-ngo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/09\/05\/delhi-hc-questions-selective-targeting-of-muslim-shrines-by-hindutva-ngo.html","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC questions selective targeting of Muslim shrines by Hindutva NGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182859\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/dd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"149\" \/>New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has strongly criticized the Hindutva-affiliated NGO Save India Foundation over its selective targeting of dargahs and other Muslim religious sites in the city under the pretext of anti-encroachment drives.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the NGO has filed 20 petitions this year alone, most focusing on alleged encroachments in Delhi with a particular emphasis on Muslim institutions.<\/p>\n<p>While dismissing the NGO\u2019s latest petition seeking the removal of a mazar and three dargahs located on the Yamuna floodplains, the Delhi HC bench questioned the organisation\u2019s bonafides. Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya raised concern over selective targeting and asked, \u201cHow do you selectively bring forth these petitions of dargahs allegedly encroaching? Do you not see other encroachments? Why are you identifying only mazars?\u201d The court noted, \u201cThis must be the fifth or sixth petition entertained by this bench where you\u2019re seeking the removal of mazars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court also expressed concern that the litigation appeared to be directed primarily against dargahs, while similar complaints against temples or other religious structures were not being pursued with equal vigour. \u201cWhy are only dargahs being brought under the scanner? If this is about encroachments, then the law must apply uniformly,\u201d the court observed.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was filed by Save India Foundation through its founder Preet Singh, who claims that the organisation works to raise issues for the enforcement of citizens\u2019 rights. Singh, however, has been accused in multiple cases related to spreading hatred against Muslims on social media. He is currently out on bail in a hate speech case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has strongly criticized the Hindutva-affiliated NGO Save India Foundation over its selective targeting of dargahs and other Muslim religious sites in the city under the pretext of anti-encroachment drives. According to Kashmir Media Service, the NGO has filed 20 petitions this year alone, most focusing on alleged encroachments in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/dd.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}