[HIGHLIGHTS] Under the pretext of developing India...the demolition of a historic shrine of a Sufi saint in Delhi

For 9 centuries, Indians have come to the shrine of Baba Haji Rozbeh to pray inside a sparse forest in the capital, Delhi. The tomb of the Sufi saint was one of the oldest Islamic sites in the Indian capital until the Development Authority turned it into ruins.

The demolition comes at a sensitive time, with Hindu nationalists increasingly daring to claim ancient Islamic archaeological sites as belonging to the Hindu religion. In January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a temple to the god Ram in the city of Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.