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New Indian Express
07-08-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Report sought on plans for letting devotees into Kanagasabai at Chidambaram temple
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the commissioner of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) department to constitute a committee to hold inspection and find out how the arrangements, made by the Podhu Dikshidars, for allowing devotees to offer worship from the Kanagasabai in the Natarajar Temple in Chidambaram, are working. A division bench of justices R Suresh Kumar and S Sounthar issued the orders recently when the petitions against a 2022 HR&CE order to allow worship from Kanagasabai came up for hearing recently. The bench said the inspection shall be held for three days and a report shall be filed on or before August 20. The order was passed after senior counsel CS Vaidyanathan, appearing for the Podhu Dikshidars, submitted that a scheme for allowing devotees into Kanagasabai through its western entry has been evolved and this arrangement has been followed since March this year. However, special government pleader for HR&CE NRR Arun Natarajan contended that the current arrangement, as submitted, is not a complete answer to the issue and it cannot be treated as an alternative to the government order. He further stated it may not be practically possible to permit more number of devotees through just one entry. The bench adjourned the matters to August 21.
The Hindu
17-06-2025
- The Hindu
Three men convicted for stealing idols from Thiruthuraipoondi Temple in 2009
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Egmore, has convicted three men and sentenced them to three-year imprisonment for breaking into a Thiruthuraipoondi temple and stealing idols from there in 2009. According to the Idol Wing CID Police, the culprits broke open the iron rods of the window of the Pavalaotheeswarar Temple in Thiruthuraipoondi and main door of sanctum sanctorum and committed theft of one Maragatha Lingam and two golden ornaments in the night of February 19, 2009. Maragatha lingam and two golden ornaments worth Rs 2.06 lakh were stolen from the temple. On the complaint of K. Kanagasabai, then executive officer, a case was registered by police. During a vehicle check on October 25, 2009 at Koyambedu bus stand, accused Ramesh and Senthil were arrested by the police of Idol Wing CID, Chennai and the properties were seized. Subsequently seven other accused were arrested and remanded. During the trial, two of the accused died and four of them went absconding. The trial was conducted against the remaining three. Idol Wing Police said the accused Vaith alias Vaithiyalingam, Melinsagayaraj and Raja alias Patchi Raja were convicted and sentenced to three- year imprisonment with fine.
