The Central government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the process to declare ‘Ram Setu’ a national heritage monument is currently underway in the Ministry of Culture.
Process to declare ‘Ram Setu’ National Heritage underway
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy was given permission by a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justices PS Narasimha, and JB Pardiwala to file a petition asking the government to designate “Ram Setu” as a national monument.
The Solicitor General, Tushar Mehta, informed the bench that the procedure was already underway at the Ministry of Culture when the Supreme Court issued its ruling. He added Swamy may send further correspondence if he wanted to.
Ram Setu lawsuit lingered for 8 years
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Swamy responded, “I do not want to meet anybody if they do not want to. We are in the same party, it was there in our manifesto. Let them decide in six weeks or four weeks…”
The bench then rejected the argument and freed Swamy to appeal the Ministry’s judgement to the highest court if he so desired. The Ram Setu lawsuit lingered for 8 years.
The lawsuit has been ongoing for eight years, according to Swamy, but the government has not been able to respond to the request.
The National Monuments Authority (NMA) and the Union of India should proclaim Ram Setu to be an Ancient Monument of National Importance, Swamy argued in his petition to the Supreme Court.
Additionally, he had requested that the Supreme Court issue a ruling ordering the “Union of India to engage the Geological Survey of India and Archeological Survey of India to conduct a detailed survey with respect to Ram Setu as an Ancient Monument of National Importance.”
The Union Minister in question had called a meeting in 2017 to consider Swamy’s demand to declare the Setu as a national heritage monument, but nothing happened after that. Swamy claimed that he had already won the first round of the litigation in which the Centre accepted the existence of “Ram Setu,” and he added that nothing had happened since.
Ram Setu is a chain of limestone shoals between Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, and Mannar Island, off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka.
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