The Supreme Court Verdicton Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple
Kerala, July 5; The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it clear that executive officer of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple shall report to the administrative committee set up by the court for managing its affairs. The ruling came from a bench of CJI J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud after senior counsel Krishnan Venugopal, appearing for the Travancore royal family,( former custodians of the temple) mentioned conflicts between former executive officer K N Satheesh, an IAS officer, and the Temple committee.
V Ratheesan has been appointed as the Executive officer on June 18th with K N Sateesh vacting the post. The court accepted Amicus Curiae Gopal Subramaniam’s recommendation to appoint an auditor for the temple and the Trust and asked the Kerala government to nominate three names.
Acting on Subramaniam’s recommendations, Supreme Court has also ordered immediate commencement of work to repair idol of the principal deity. But the court has declines to interfere in the Probe of ‘Missing 8 diamonds’ from the Idols’s Tilak (Namam) as complained by the Amicus Curiae.
The court has mentioned that it has no objection in opening the B Vault in the Temple, but has asked the guidance of Mr Subramanian to guide on this issue as according to the devotees mystic energies are associated with that vault.
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