While countering the suit filed by the Muslim side, the Hindu defendant had also asserted that the disputed site has remnants of a Shiva temple and housed the Lakshagriha (the House of Lacquer in the Mahabharata).
Rajvardhan Singh Parmar, 'President' of the Hindu right-wing Maharana Pratap Sena in Ajmer, has claimed that the Ajmer Dargah is a "sacred Hindu temple".