Plea in HC seeks excavation at Ekanathan mutt in Madurai village

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Plea in HC seeks excavation at Ekanathan mutt in Madurai village
TNN | Mar 18, 2021, 04:56 IST
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Madurai: The Madras high court on Wednesday directed the state archaeological department and head of the epigraphy and archaeology department of Tamil University at Thanjavur to submit a report after inspecting the Ekanathan mutt in Kinnimangalam village in Madurai district.
A division bench of justices M M Sundresh and S Ananthi observed that the petition filed M Arulanandam, a resident of Madurai, is of utmost importance.
The petitioner had stated that a rare memorial pillar with nearly 2,000-year-old Tamil Brahmi inscriptions was found on the premises of the Ekanathan Mutt. The inscriptions in three lines read, ‘Ekan Athan Kottam’. He stated that the word Kottam means a temple raised in memory of kings or other persons holding a significant position in the society.
He stated that since the site is of archaeological importance, more archaeologists are visiting and are studying about the inscriptions which were found so far. He stated that the site should be protected since several encroachments were made in and around the mutt.

The judges said that the petitioner seeks archaeological excavation at Ekanathan mutt which was housed by Siddhars once. The judges observed that a thorough study is required on the Tamil Brahmi inscriptions found on a pillar.
Hence, the judges suo motu impleaded the commissioner of the Hindu religious and charitable endowment (HR and CE) department and directed him to constitute a special team and submit a report after inspecting the site.
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Madurai: Writ courts have been deluged with mandamus petitions converting the constitutional jurisdiction of the court into a ‘direction factory’ or ‘machine’ producing clichéd, stereotype order/hackneyed directions which hardly require any application of mind, the Madras high has said. Justice V Parthiban observed that constitutional courts have been woefully reduced to a below par performer allowing mediocrity to creep into the system of writ governance by the ‘Mandamus Mania’.
The judge observed that the court unfortunately has been witnessing in the recent past that plethora of mandamus writ petitions being filed at the drop of a hat for all kinds of relief as a matter of course taking away the precious time of the court from focusing on a quality litigation in true exercise of its constitutional jurisdiction.
The judge observed that the trend has reached an alarming level today that a representation is submitted to the authority for his action and simultaneously a writ of mandamus is filed seeking direction to dispose of the representation.
This trend, apart from belittling the constitutional jurisdiction of this writ court, lately has to an extraordinary measure been encouraging the present younger generation of lawyers to resort to mandamus litigations through a contrived route as a fast track to achieve instant result for their brief at the cost of valuable court’s time, and thereby depriving the litigants of actual reliefs deserved by them, at the first instance, observed the judge.
The judge said that it is common knowledge that the authorities at various positions taking cue from the trend are by and large not inclined to discharge their official responsibility or function, unless a direction is issued by the courts on almost all matters, which should have been decided and disposed of routinely by them in a time-bound manner.
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“It is high time the constitutional courts did corrective judicial introspection and discourage any attempt by obsessive ‘direction seekers’ from plummeting the exalted jurisdiction of the courts into a barren, pedestrian and stupefied judicial edifice,” observed the judge. An atrophied state of ‘Mandamus Management’ requires a concerted surgical response, said the judge.
The court was hearing the petition filed by G Soundarrajan, a resident of Trichy district who submitted an application for making proper entry in the revenue records of a land after obtaining a decree in his favour from the civil court. The court dismissed the petition observing that when the authority was inquiring into the matter, the petitioner had moved court without providing reasonable time to the authorities.
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