Hyderabad: A part of a lime stucco on one of the four minarets of Charminar got detached and fell off on Wednesday night. However, no one was injured in the incident.
According to a media report, soon after the incident people gathered in large numbers at the 400-year-old monument in Hyderabad and a team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) arrived and inspected the damage.
It is notable that a few years ago, the ASI had taken up the conservation of the four towering minarets of the monument that was built in 1591 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty and also the founder of Hyderabad city.
Talking about the damage, an official has been quoted saying that piece of the lime stucco work probably got detached from the granite slab as it could not stick properly with the previous one and fell off. “It was a small piece, a part of the stucco on the minaret. It fell down Wednesday night within the premises only.”
It is to be noted that in August 2010, after a heavy rain, a small portion of one the monument’s four minarets fell off the ancient structure.