Madras HC finds TN order asking temples to donate to CM’s Covid Fund Untenable : Success of Hindus legal battle

Congratulations to devout Hindus who have taken action in legal manner to fight the efforts of the Government to usurp the Temple money ! Such actions should be taken by every awakened Hindu.

Hindus feel that the Court should award punishment to the concerning individuals so that nobody would dare to issue such orders in future.

Chennai – The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department on 4 May withdrew its order on transferring Rs 10 crore of funds from Hindu temples in the State to the Chief Minister’s Covid-19 Relief Fund, after the Madras High Court found it “not legally tenable”.

Congratulations to devout Hindu advocate @trramesh ji and others for compelling Tamil Nadu Govt to withdraw discriminatory order asking Hindu temples to donate for CM Relief Fund for #Corona, while Hindu poojaris are facing hardships due to ongoing lockdown ! https://t.co/SPF3Frb885

— HinduJagrutiOrg (@HinduJagrutiOrg) May 4, 2020

• A Madras High Court public interest litigation (PIL) Bench, comprising Justices Vineet Kothari and Pushpa Sathyanarayana, found the order issued on 22^nd April untenable while taking up three petitions against the HR&CE order for hearing.
• The judges found merit in the argument of the counsel of T R Ramesh, President, Hindu Temple Worshippers Society, who sought a stay on the order. Besides Ramesh, Tamil daily Dinamalar editor R R Gopaljee and another person, too, had a filed PIL against the HR&CE circular.
• The HR&CE Department then issued the order in the afternoon saying that it was withdrawing the earlier order for “administrative reasons”.
• Ramesh said that the judges accepted his contention that the HR&CE Commissioner could not pass a circular under Section 36-B of HRCE Act, 1959 when he himself was the sanctioning authority.
• The HR&CE order led to a hue and cry being raised in Tamil Nadu against the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government.
• This was in view of the Edappadi K Palaniswami Government milking the temples of their funds even as it offered 5,450 tonnes of rice free of cost to mosques.