The petition seeking a court-appointed inspection of the monument has been rejected twice in the past.
A female activist from a right-wing group was arrested on Monday for conducting a water ritual and raising a saffron flag at the Taj Mahal, claiming that the monument was originally a Shiva temple.
In 2015, a civil suit sought to declare the Taj Mahal a Hindu temple. This April, after an Agra trial court refused the petitioners’ request to appoint an Advocate Commissioner to survey the monument, ...