Courts should not waste their time examining ‘fictions’: Taj Mahal identity case framed as frivolous and vexatious

The editorial discusses litigation seeking a declaration that the Taj Mahal was originally a Hindu temple. A suit filed in 2015 challenged the monument’s identity; following a trial court's refusal of an Advocate Commissioner's request for a survey, the Allahabad High Court sought responses from the Union government and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) concerning this refusal.

The editorial argues that irrespective of legal merits, the petition is baseless. It traces the notion to late-20th-century ‘pseudohistorical’ claims associated with P. N. Oak, repeatedly rejected by historians and archaeologists due to their speculative reasoning and unsupported assertions.