Kochi, December 11: Kerala High Court on Sunday proposed an extension of the time of worship for devotees on the Sabarimala temple by an hour on busy days.
The Devaswom Bench of the excessive courtroom mooted the proposal after convening a particular sitting on Sunday.
The courtroom had requested the Board to think about extending the time of worship after taking suo motu cognisance of a current rush of devotees on the Sabarimala temple, which left fairly a couple of of them injured.
The Bench of Justices Anil Ok Narendran and PG Ajithkumar additionally dircted the Pathanamthitta district collector and the police to manage the group on the Sabarimala shrine.
The lawyer for the Devaswom board submitted in courtroom {that a} choice on extending the time of worhsip can solely be made after holding consultations with the temple’s chief priest, owing to sure ritualistic issues.
The Devaswom Board stated bookings are growing regardless of makes an attempt made to manage the congestion on the temple by digital queues.
The police and the Devaswom Board made it clear that there’s an pressing want for crowd management, together with the capping of the variety of bookings per day to 85,000.
However, the courtroom held that anybody who treks to the Sabarimala temple mustn’t return with out a darshan (go to).
It proposed that the authorities involved make all crucial preparations to make sure the identical.
With experiences of all accessible parking areas filling up, the courtroom additionally put ahead the proposal of imposing restrictions on the variety of autos and full-time police patrol.
The courtroom stated it would contemplate the matter once more on Monday.
Kerala HC proposes extending time of worship at Sabarimala for crowd management ANI 12 December 2022 Post Your Comments
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