Bhopal/Dhar, May 15 (IANS) Congress MLA Arif Masood on Friday described the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s judgment on the Bhojshala complex as “one-sided”, contending that the court judgment relied solely on the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)’s report and did not take into account other material facts and objections raised by the Muslim side. Masood said the court’s decision was based entirely on the ASI’s findings, which he alleged were prepared without full involvement of all petitioners d…
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Dhar, May 15 (IANS) Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, who represented the Hindu side in the Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute, on Friday termed the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s verdict “historic” after the Indore bench declared the disputed complex in Dhar as belonging to Raja Bhoj and granted Hindus the right to worship. Speaking to the media after the court pronounced its judgment, Jain said, “The Indore High Court has delivered a historic verdict, partially setting aside the A…
Bhopal/Dhar, May 9 (IANS) Police in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district have registered an FIR against around 26 Congress leaders and hundreds of party workers for allegedly blocking a National Highway during a statewide farmers’ protest organised by the Congress at Khalghat on May 7.FIR copy available with IANS stated that protesters parked tractors and other vehicles on the Khalghat four-lane stretch of the Indore-Ahmedabad National Highway, disrupting traffic for several hours and causing seve…
Bhopal/Dhar, April 30 (IANS) The tragic Dhar district accident death toll rose to 16 as four more labourers succumb to their injuries. All the deceased were cremated en-masse on Thursday. The accident took place late on Tuesday evening within the jurisdiction of Tirla police station when a pickup truck carrying around 46 labourers, including women and children, lost control near a hotel.The vehicle, coming from Ghatabillod, veered onto the wrong side of the road before overturning.The impact was…
New Delhi/Bhopal, April 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also expressed deep condolences over the heartbreaking road accident that claimed 12 lives and left 13 injured on Wednesday evening at Tirla bypass near Chikliya Phata in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district.The accident occurred on Indore-Ahmedabad highway when a pick-up vehicle carrying several labourers including children overturned. According to police officials, the accident occurred near a petrol pump in Chikliya. The pickup vehi…
Bhopal, April 29 (IANS) A devastating road accident on the Tirla Bypass in Dhar district claimed the lives of at least eight labourers, including children, on Wednesday night.The incident occurred around 8.30 p.m. near a private petrol pump in the Chikaliya area when a pick-up truck, dangerously overcrowded with passengers, lost control and overturned.Preliminary police reports suggest the vehicle was carrying between 40 and 45 labourers, a figure that far exceeds the legal and safe seating capa…
Dhar/Pithampur, April 22 (IANS) A massive blaze erupted at a private waste company in Sector-3 of Pithampur, the bustling industrial zone in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, turning the waste disposal facility into an uncontrollable inferno within moments. The fire, which began in the early hours of Wednesday, has not yet subsided. Dozens of fire tenders raced to the scene and waged a battle against the flames, yet the fire continued to devour the premises unchecked. Thick plumes of smoke billow…
New Delhi/Khargone, April 17 (IANS) Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on Friday directed strict legal action and immediate compensation after complaints of crop loss due to substandard seeds in Madhya Pradesh.The minister met a group of young farmers from Dhar and Khargone districts at his official residence in New Delhi on Friday.The farmers informed him about severe losses in their bitter gourd crop. They said poor-quality seeds and saplings were responsibl…
Indore, April 6 (IANS) The Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday commenced continuous and regular hearings in the long‑standing and highly sensitive Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute in Dhar district. A Division Bench comprising Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi conducted a nearly two‑hour hearing, during which Senior Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, appearing for the Hindu petitioners, including Ashish Goyal and the Hindu Front for Justice, presented deta…
Indore, April 2 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday fixed April 6 as the date to commence detailed regular hearings in the long-standing Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute in Dhar district. Due to paucity of time, as the division bench was scheduled to sit only till 1.30 p.m., the matter could not be taken up in detail on Thursday.A division bench comprising Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi passed the order, stating clearly, “We fix all the matters for …