A Hindu outfit on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on offering of a ‘chadar’ on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah on the grounds that it would prejudice Hindu devotees’ claim over the site.

Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju is scheduled to offer the ceremonial ‘chadar’ during the 814th annual Urs at the tomb of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chisti on December 22 on behalf of the Prime Minister.

“We are seeking a stay on the offering of the ‘chadar’ at Ajmer Sharif Dargah by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Our plea regarding Sankat Mochan Mandir there is pending,” advocate Barun Kumar Sinha, representing Hindu Sena, told a Special Vacation Bench led by CJI Surya Kant.

As Sinha urged the Bench – which also included Justice Joymalya Bagchi — to urgently take up the matter today itself, the CJI turned down his request.

“No listing today,” CJI Kant told Sinha.

Hindu Sena filed a lawsuit in November last year in an Ajmer court contending that the dargah has been built over a pre-existing temple.

Offering of the ‘chadar’ at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah has been a tradition followed by prime ministers, irrespective of their ideological moorings.