GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Qutub Minar was named after the Sufi saint Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki. The foundation stone for it was laid by Qutub-ud-Din Aibak, while Iltutumish got it completed. The monument is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Delhi.

Detailed explanation-2: -However, the Archeological Survey of India opposed Mr. Jain’s plea, submitting that the Qutub Minar complex is not a place of worship and neither was it one when it was first notified as a protected monument in 1914.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is usually thought that the tower is named for Qutb-ud-din Aibak, who began it. It is also possible that it is named after Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki a 13th-century sufi saint, because Shamsuddin Iltutmish was a devotee of his.