https://x.com/sekarreporter1/status/1999388473829261341?t=Id0XLzHDWIeYBazywE8gTw&s=08 [12/12, 13:31] Sekarreporter: [12/12, 13:09] Sekarreporter: AG wonders how can Justice GR Swaminathan say that at least to establish the right of the temple over the entire hill, but for the place where the dargah was located and the flight of steps leading to it, the Deepam should be lit on the stone now being called Deepathoon

[12/12, 13:31] Sekarreporter: https://x.com/sekarreporter1/status/1999388473829261341?t=Id0XLzHDWIeYBazywE8gTw&s=08
[12/12, 13:31] Sekarreporter: [12/12, 13:09] Sekarreporter: AG wonders how can Justice GR Swaminathan say that at least to establish the right of the temple over the entire hill, but for the place where the dargah was located and the flight of steps leading to it, the Deepam should be lit on the stone now being called Deepathoon
[12/12, 13:10] Sekarreporter: AG says, if every judge begins to suggest a new place for lighting the Deepam, there will be hundreds of options. Can it be done has to be tested by the Division Bench. There was not a scrap of paper before the single judge to prove that the stone pillar is a Deepathoon, he adds
[12/12, 13:10] Sekarreporter: AG says, when the Tirupparankundram temple priests had clearly said that the Deepam should be lit only at Uchipillaiyar temple and the temple management also had taken the same view, the writ court cannot take a contrary view.
[12/12, 13:10] Sekarreporter: AG asks where is the proof for GRSJ to say that a tradition had been abandoned. Where is the tradition? he asks and says, when the court poses a wrong question, it will only get a wrong answer. There is no factual basis of any tradition having been abandoned, he says.
[12/12, 13:12] Sekarreporter: AG says the power under Article 226 (writ jurisdiction of High Courts) is extraordinary. But more extraordinary the power, the greater the restraint that is required. So, the court must take into consideration the ground realitiies before exercising such a power, he adds.
[12/12, 13:12] Sekarreporter: AG says, the petitioner can always file a civil suit and establish whether the so called Deepathoon is really a Deepathoon and whether the Deepam was ever lit on it or not. However, those issues cannot be decided under Article 226 (writ jurisdiction), he adds.
[12/12, 13:29] Sekarreporter: Is that stone structure, a Deepathoon? is the fundamental question. It could be accepted as a Deepathoon only if some acceptable evidence had been placed before this court to prove that at least at some point of time, Deepam was used to be lit there, the AG says.
[12/12, 13:29] Sekarreporter: Article 226 (writ jurisdiction of the High Courts) of the Constitution cannot be used to change a customary practice, the AG adds.