India, July 7 -- The Allahabad high court on Monday asked the Centre and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to file their counter affidavits on a writ petition seeking an advocate commission to survey the Taj Mahal in Agra and examine a claim that a Shiva temple originally existed on the monument's premises. The petition was filed on June 30 after the civil judge (senior division) and the additional district judge at the district court in Agra declined to appoint such a commission. Advocate Hari Shanker Jain submitted that the trial court wrongly rejected the application and that the revision had then been dismissed as not maintainable.htc
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