"Not Getting Into How To Break Coconuts": Supreme Court On Puja Plea
NDTV
Temple customs are established practices, not the kind of issues courts can get into, said the Supreme Court.
Day-to-day temple customs are not something that constitutional courts can get into, the Supreme Court underlined today rejecting a plea alleging irregularities in puja rituals at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara near Tirupati.
"How can courts intervene about how to break a coconut? How to conduct aarti? Temple customs are established practices, not the kind of issues courts can get into," said Chief Justice Of India NV Ramana.
"Only if there are administration issues like discrimination or not allowing darshan, can the courts intervene," the Chief Justice said, adding in such a case it can direct the temple administration to answer the petitioner within eight weeks.
Petitioner Srivari Dadaa had argued that the issue concerned fundamental rights.
