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Demolition of heritage site PDF Print E-mail
Written by The Tribune News Service   
Wednesday, 05 April 2006

State govt asked to file reply by April 18

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed the Punjab Government to file its reply by April 18 on a petition seeking directions to restrain the respondents from demolishing a historic, heritage site closely associated with Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Aasron village in Nawanshahr district.

As per history, Maharaja Ranjit Singh had hoisted his flag and established an artillery post at the site in 1831 before meeting Lord William Bentick on October 26, 1831 on the other side of the Sutlej.

In its petition, the Punjab Heritage and Education Foundation through its president Prof Gurbax Singh Shergill has challenged the move to demolish the historic site. The petition says that place under a peepal tree, where the Maharaja and the Britisher held a meeting, was being maintained as a historical site.

The Punjab Heritage and Education Foundation is a registered society trying to maintain and construct the heritage in order to perpetuate the memory of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s glorious rule.

Its petition came up before the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Mr Justice D.K. Jain and Mr Justice Surya Kant today.

It has stated that after the acquisition of the Swaraj Mazda-owned factory, which is located close to the historic site, the local administration has begun to bulldoze the site in order to extend the boundary of the factory which would only result in destruction of the historical hill opposite Ropar on the bank of the river Satluj.

Saying that it has been developing the site area as Maharaja Ranjit Singh Memorial National Historical Hill Park for which former union minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Punjab minister Jagmohan Singh Kang have made donations, the petitioner has stated that this showed the recognition being granted to its efforts in preserving a historic, heritage site.


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