The Supreme Court Monday mentioned the administration of Gokarna Mahabaleshwar temple can be handed over to an oversight committee headed by former apex courtroom decide Justice B N Srikrishna.
A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian delivered its verdict on a batch of pleas together with the one filed by the Ramchndrapura Math.
The ‘Math’ had filed an attraction in opposition to a Karnataka High Court’s judgment of 2018 quashing the state authorities’s order handing over the administration of Mahabaleshwar temple at Gokarna to the Ramchandrapura Math.
The high courtroom modified its earlier interim orders and ordered that that the Gokarna Mahabaleshwar temple shall now perform below the oversight committee headed by the previous apex courtroom decide Justice (retd.) Srikrishna.
The appellant ‘Math’ must hand over the administration to the committee which shall perform adhering to all customs and traditions, the bench mentioned in its judgement.
“We direct the overseeing committee shall function under the chairmanship of Justice B N Srikrishna. Appellant shall hand over the charge to the Assistant commissioner who will report to the overseeing committee,” the CJI mentioned whereas announcing the decision by way of video conferencing.
