The Madras Excessive Courtroom on Thursday, March 14, 2024, needed to know whether or not the Hindu Spiritual and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Division will provide you with a Commonplace Working Process (SOP) to run below its management.
The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy directed the counsel for the HR & CE Division to get directions by April 15, because the tying of the nuptial knot it was a standard phenomenon in virtually all of the temples of the State.
The course was issued whereas listening to a public curiosity litigation petition filed by S. Mohanaraman to restrain the trustees of the Balasaarthuleeswarar Temple at Nellore Pet in Gudiyatham from granting permission to conduct marriages or related ceremonies on the premises of the temple.
P. Valliappan, the petitioner's lawyer, instructed the courtroom that although he had no objection to only tying the nuptial knot in entrance of the deity, he was aggrieved by the conversion of the temple premises right into a corridor of eating chairs and tables for lease from the households who do the weddings.
He stated that such practices had been opposite to customs and weren’t in consonance with the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Temple Entrance Authorization Act, 1947. The courtroom was additionally instructed that the petitioner had a illustration on this regard on July 29, 2022.
Discovering power of their submissions, the judges stated that the HR & CE Division may provide you with sure pointers to be adopted concerning conducting marriages in all of the temples below its management. They stated that the ceremony may very well be carried out within the temple, however the dinner needs to be organized elsewhere.
