‘Authorities duty-bound to protect rights of SC community’


Festival at Sri Badrakaliamman temple in Kallimedu village should be performed without hitch, says High Court.

The Madras High Court on Tuesday noted that it is the moral obligation and also the mandate under the provisions of Tamil Nadu Temple Entry Authorisation Act, 1947, for the Nagapattinam district authorities to permit people belonging to scheduled caste community to have right of worship at Sri Badrakaliamman temple in Kallimedu village, and to perform rituals during Aadi festival.

‘Arrive at compromise’

“This court hopes that the petitioners will be alive to the said situation and work out some compromise, so that at least in the next year during the Tamil month of Aadi, the temple festival is performed without any problem or hitch,” Justice M. Sathyanarayanan said while hearing a plea moved by M. Shanmugavelu and two others of the village...............Read more

 

Source: The Hindu


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