Why Eknath Shinde has dug up a dargah dispute in the hills
- January 5, 2024
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Why Eknath Shinde has dug up a dargah dispute in the hills
Subject: Geography
Section: Places in news
Context: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said to the liberate of the Haji Malang Dargah in Kalyan
About Haji Malang Dargah:
- Located on the lowest plateau of Malanggad which is a hill fort 3,000 feet above sea level on the Matheran hill ranges
- The Haji Malang Dargah is revered by both Hindus and Muslims.
- The shrine was built in honor of an Arab missionary, Haji Abd-ul-Rahman who was popularly known as Haji Malang.
- Supreme Court in one of the case observed that the dargah was a composite structure that cannot be governed either by Hindu or Muslim law, but only by its own special custom or by general law of trusts
About Matheran hill ranges:
- Matheran is an automobile-free hill station and a municipal council in the Karjat taluka of the Raigad district located in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
- It is one of the smallest hill stations in India.
- It is situated on the Western Ghats range at an elevation of around 2,625 feet above sea level.
- Matheran has a reasonably dense forest cover.
- Matheran has been declared an eco sensitive region by the Union Environment Ministry and can be called a Health Sanatorium in itself.
- The town also has a large monkey population, including Bonnet Macaques and Hanuman Langurs.
- The nearby Lake Charlotte is the main source of Matheran’s drinking water.