Tamil Nadu government claims Madras HC's order to light a lamp on Thiruparankundram hills is a "new religious tradition" and legally incorrect.

The Tamil Nadu government on Friday told the Madras high court that its single bench of justice GR Swaminathan, in directing through its December 1 order that a lamp be lit atop the Thiruparankundram hills, had manufactured a “new religious tradition” out of his own whim and had strayed far outside judicial bounds.

The state told a bench of justices G Jayachandran and KK Ramakrishnan that it had deferred from implementing the December 1 decision for the same was “legally untenable and incorrect”.

The state’s remarks comes amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the lighting of the lamp atop the Madurai hill. The matter has triggered a wider pol

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