The Excessive Courtroom directed the police to make sure compliance to the order (File)
Kochi:
The Kerala Excessive Courtroom stated that no mass drill or weapons coaching can be allowed on the premises of the Sarkara Devi Temple in Thiruvananthapuram District. The temple is underneath the administration of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB).
The court docket’s path got here when it was disposing of a petition by two devotees in search of an order to stop the “unlawful use and unauthorised occupancy” of the temple premises by the RSS and its members.
The Excessive Courtroom directed the police to supply needed help for the strict compliance of an earlier TDB order banning RSS ‘shakhas’ (branches) and mass drills on the shrines managed by the board.
“No mass drill or weaponry practices (sic) shall be permitted on the premises of the stated temple, which is underneath the administration of the Travancore Devaswom Board. The Station Home Officer of Chirayinkeezhu Police Station shall render needed help to the Administrative Officer to make sure strict compliance of the prohibition…,” Justices Anil Ok Narendran and PG Ajithkumar stated in a current order.
The TDB, which manages the temples in Kerala, had on Might 18, issued a contemporary round asking officers to strictly observe its earlier order banning RSS ‘shakhas’ (branches) or mass drills within the shrines underneath it.
In that round, the TDB stated that stern motion could be taken towards officers who refuse to observe its 2021 order in the identical regard.
The TDB had in 2016 issued a round banning all kinds of arms coaching within the temple complexes by the RSS. Later, on March 30, 2021, the board reissued the round asking officers to take motion.
In 2016, the then Devaswom Minister, Kadakampally Surendran, had claimed that the RSS was making an attempt to show temples into storehouses of arms in Kerala and that the federal government had been receiving a lot of complaints on this regard.
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