Urge SC to begin listening to pleas in opposition to Sabarimala verdict, Chandy tells CM
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By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Former CM Oommen Chandy has written to CM Pinarayi Vijayan urging him to provoke steps to begin the arguments within the apex courtroom within the evaluation pleas in opposition to the decision permitting entry of girls of all ages into Sabarimala temple. Chandy stated the inordinate delay ought to be prevented, as solely that might heal the injuries suffered by Lord Ayyappa devotees.
In the letter, Chandy stated the petitions, together with the affidavit submitted by the UDF authorities earlier than the SC in 2016, the Kerala High Court’s 1991 verdict and the petition filed below Section 31 of the Travancore- Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions Act, 1950, ought to be dropped at the discover of the apex courtroom.
He stated the 1950 Act and the Mahendran case verdict of April 5, 1991 have been additionally not thought of when the SC had examined the present legal guidelines pertaining to the Sabarimala temple’s customs and traditions. It was S Mahendran, then a 24-yearold and native of Perunna in Changanassery, who had approached the High Court in 1990 searching for a ban on girls’s entry into the hill shrine).
“On February 4, 2016, the then UDF government in its affidavit had argued that girls/ women in the 10-50 age group could not be allowed entry into the temple as per the existing customs, traditions and law. But when the petition was taken up for arguments, the LDF government ignored the law and realities and took a stand against Travancore Devaswom Board’s views and said girls/ women of this age group could be allowed to offer prayers at the temple,” he stated.
