The ASI had petitioned the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, asserting that the CEO of the MP Waqf Board had erroneously classified these sites as Waqf property in a 2013 order. The ASI argued that these properties were already designated as ancient and protected monuments under the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904, and therefore could not be reclassified as Waqf property.
