law: Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958
  16.Protection of place of worship from misuse,
  
  pollution or desecration.-
  (1) A protected monument maintain by the 
  
  Central Government under this Act which is a place of worship or shrine shall 
  
  not be used for any purpose inconsistent with its character.
  (2) Where the Central Government has acquired a protected monument under
  
  section 13, or where the Director-General has purchased, or taken a lease or accepted
  
  a gift or bequest or assumed guardianship of, a protected monument under
  
  section 5, and such monument or any part the derives used for religious worship
  
  or observances by any community, the Collector hall make due provisions for the
  
  protection of such monument or part thereof, from pollution or desecration-
  (a) by prohibiting the
  
  entry therein, except in accordance with the conditions prescribed with the
  
  concurrence of the persons, if any, in religious charge of the said monument or
  
  part thereof, of any person not entitled so to enter by the religious usages of
  
  the community by which the monument or part thereof is used, or
  (b) by taking such
  
  other action as he may think necessary in this behalf.