Srisailam temple: Muslim shopkeepers of shrine complicated hail Ideal Court docket order
The Muslim shopkeepers of the Sri Bhramaramba Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple complicated in Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh have hailed the Ideal Court docket’s order directing that folks from different faiths already preserving store licences within the temple premises will have to no longer be barred from taking part within the public sale for retail outlets.
The auctioning procedure within the premises of this temple — popularly referred to as the Srisailam temple — have been dispose of by way of the state executive in August 2019 after some Hindu teams hostile participation of non-Hindus in it mentioning the AP Charitable and Hindu Non secular Establishment and Endowments Act, 1987, which bars non-Hindus from running close to temples.
An apex court docket bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and BV Nagarathna directed that “not one of the tenants/store holders will likely be excluded from taking part within the public sale or from the grant of rentals only at the floor in their faith”.
The course was once given Friday in two petitions—one filed by way of a gaggle of 21 Muslim shopkeepers of Srisailam, and every other, a contempt petition, filed by way of proprietor of a store outdoor Kanaka Durga temple at Vijayawada. The bench blended each petitions.
In January 2017, the Srisailam temple management had taken up widening of the 2 primary method roads to the temple, for which a minimum of 50 retail outlets needed to be demolished. The management had confident store house owners that new retail outlets could be allotted to them within sight. A number of the 50 store house owners are 21 Muslims.
The temple management constructed the Sri Lalithambika Buying groceries Advanced for brand new retail outlets, but if the public sale was once to be held in 2019, a number of Hindu teams led by way of Bajrang Dal and native BJP member Srikanth Reddy objected to participation by way of non-Hindus, mentioning the AP Charitable and Hindu Non secular Establishment and Endowments Act, 1987.
Whilst the state executive halted the public sale, Minister for Endowments Vellampalli Srinivasa transferred the temple’s Govt Officer (EO) to chill down tempers.
