SC sets up panel led by ex-HC judge for Banke Bihari temple

NEW DELHI: Excellent Court docket on Saturday arrange an 11-member intervening time high-powered committee headed by means of former Allahabad excessive court docket pass judgement on Justice Ashok Kumar to “oversee and supervise the daily functioning outside and inside of the Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan and plan “holistic building” of the temple and its environment.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi additionally gave inexperienced sign to the Uttar Pradesh government to continue with the purchase of land across the temple required for growing a hall at the strains of the only constructed for the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi.With out expressing any opinion at the legality of the state’s ordinance for growing the temple and its surrounding in addition to development the hall by means of taking Rs 200 crore from the temple fund, the bench stated it’s for the Allahabad HC to make a decision the validity of the ordinance. It asked the HC to make a decision the constitutionality of the ordinance inside 12 months of unpolluted writ petitions filed in opposition to it.Rejecting programs filed by means of pujaris and different individuals objecting to ideas for making improvements to the temple functioning, the bench stated, “We see completely no benefit in those objections, at this degree, particularly when we’ve granted liberty to problem the ordinance ahead of the HC.”



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