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Don't demolish 200-year-old Hindu temple:
Pakistani court
Sunday September 16, 2012 06:29:46 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: A court in
Pakistan has restrained authorities in the port city of Karachi
from demolishing a Hindu temple believed to have been constructed
200 years ago, a media report said.
According to the Dawn newspaper, the Sindh High Court restrained
the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and other respondents from
demolishing the Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir at the Native Jetty
Bridge.
A bench led by Chief Justice Mushir Alam asked a court official to
inspect the temple and submit a report.
A constitutional petition was recently filed by Kailash Wishram,
who lives in the residential quarters on the temple premises,
saying that a private company in collaboration with the KPT had
started some construction work blocking the access to seawater
from the temple.
The petition said the construction threatened the place of worship
and also the right of the minority community at large.
The secretary of ports and shipping ministry, the KPT chairman and
the private firm that ran a food court under the bridge were named
respondents.
The petitioner said the temple was constructed much before the
partition of the subcontinent, and for a long time Hindus have
been performing religious rituals there.
It said access to seawater was one of the essential things to
perform worship.
The Pakistan Hindu Council says the temple was constructed 200
years ago and many Hindu festivals are celebrated there.
It is also a sacred place for performing funerals and other
religious rituals by the sea.
The court ordered that the temple, its staircase, boundary wall
and corridors originally constructed may not be demolished.
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