New Delhi: A fresh clarification has been issued by Advocate KV Dhanajay on the Supreme Court’s May 5, 2025 order in the Dharmasthala case, where a former sanitation worker had alleged mass burials of victims of murder and sexual assault inside the temple town. The statement, dated September 26, 2025, stressed that the top court’s dismissal of the writ petition had been purely on procedural grounds of delay and laches, and not on the merits of the grave allegations.

According to the clarification note, the Supreme Court order itself clearly recorded that the matter was not examined on merits. The order had said: “The writ petition has to be dismissed on the ground of delay and laches without requiring to consider the same on merits.”

The note explained that no notice had been issued to

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