SC pulls up ASI for inaction in protecting Lodhi-era monument from illegal occupation

The Supreme Court has pulled up the Archaeological Survey of India for failing to protect a Lodhi-era monument at Defence Colony here with the CBI flagging that a Resident Welfare Association was using the 15th century structure as its office. Fuming over the inaction on the part of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for allowing the Resident Welfare Association (RWA) to occupy the structure since the 1960s, a bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said, "What kind of authority are you (ASI)? What is your mandate? You have gone back from your mandate of protecting the ancient structures. We are perturbed by your inaction.

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