Moksha deepam will be lit at Thillai Natarajar temple, Chidambaram by 6 PM tomorrow to commemorate the sacrifice of Chhatrapati Shambhaji Maharaj due to his close relationship with the temple.

In 1648 due to Bijapur invasion Nataraja and Sivakami murtis were moved to Madurai

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Chidambaram was conquered by Shivaji Maharaj in 1677. Though Chhatrapati made arrangements to restart worship in the temple, the murtis remained in Madurai fearing continuous Islamic attacks against the Marathas.

Many Hindu temples stay dilapidated and ignored across the secular Indian territory. So @People4Dharma took it as a mission to do our bit to renovate, rebuild, and restart the worship in as many temples as possible. So far, we have been able to help in resuming worship in 5 temples in Tamilnadu.
Vedanarayana Perumal temple, and Lakshmi Narasimha temple, Sripuranthan (Ariyalur district), Thirumeninathaswamy temple, Dharma Sastha temple, Muneeshwarar temple, Anandhur (Ramnad district)

1. On 01/03/2021 we have filed a representation before the @CMofKarnataka and HRCE Commissioner pointing out several issues of financial misappropriation, mismanagement in Sri Kukke Subramanya Temple. The representation has been filed by our lawyer @ShreehariK. 2. Temple books haven't been audited for last 5 yrs. Previously audit was conducted for FYs 2008-09 to 2011-12 in 2015 & for FYs 2012-13 to 2014-15 in 2016. The Audit reports pointed out numerous inaccuracies, errors, mistakes apart from instances of mismanagement.

1. Justice U. U. Lalit pronounced the judgement in the #SriPadmanabhaswamyTemple case today. 2. Justice Lalit observed that the judgement has been delivered under 5 segments. The Shebaitship of the Ruler of Travancore Family over the Temple has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

1. The Guruvayur Sree Krishna temple has become a cash cow for secular government ever since it was taken over by the Kerala state government in 1971

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2. In 1977 when the Kerala state government tried to take money from the temple for its housing scheme, the Kerala High Court prevented the govt from taking temple money and struck down many sections the act as it was found to be in violation of Article 26 of the constitution

1. The 9 judge bench of SC constituted to hear larger issues of Fundamental rights under Art 25 & 26 and authority of court to determine essentiality of religious practices assembled on 3rd Feb to frame broader questions on matters referred to it by the Sabarimala review verdict 2. During this hearing it was argued that the scope of review jurisdiction is very limited and the review Bench could not have framed new issues for reference to a larger Bench.

1. The three Judge Bench headed by the Hon’ble CJI Shri S A Bobde clarified that in view of the questions raised in the Review Verdict in the #Sabarimala case, the balance of convenience lies in favour of the practice of the Temple which has existed for over a 1000 years. 2. The CJI observed that while it could be argued that there is no stay of the 2018 verdict, the Court is exercising its discretion to not pass orders allowing entry until questions raised in the Review Verdict are finally decided by a larger Bench.

The Constitution Bench presided by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India pronounced its judgment on the review petitions challenging the verdict of September 28, 2018 which permitted entry of women into the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple. The review petitions hv been held maintainable by 3 of 5 Judges who have taken view that review petitions hv raised at least 7 imp questions which merit consideration by larger Bench since it also impacts question of entry of Muslim women into Mosques & Female Genital Mutilation

@jsaideepak 141A. which they haven't performed for several decades in thousands of Temples. And yet the government has continue to collect that cut. @jsaideepak 142. Mr. @jsaideepak pointed out that such a fee was justified by the State Government of TN in the Shirur Mutt case as not being a tax within the meaning of Article 27,

82. Mr. Dattar requested that the proposal which will be submitted tomorrow by Mr. Venugopal, would require suggestions from the Bench as well. 83. To this, Justice Lalit responded that the Bench would only require inputs from all counsels and proposals that are made keeping everyone's interest in mind.

Here are the updates for today's hearing in the #padmanabhaswamytemple case. 2. State's counsel submitted copies of the Expert Committee Report to the Bench. Mr. Venugopal, then started his final submissions.

1. Here are the updates of hearing held on 28th March 2019 in the #padmanabhaswamytemple case. 2. Mr. Krishnan Venugopal continued with his submissions. He addressed the Court's query on whether the Thanthri was consulted by the Amicus while making recommendations w.r.t religious practices at the Temple.

1- Here are the updates in today's (March 27, 2019) hearing in the #PadmanabhaswamyTemple case. 2- Mr. @jsaideepak began with a recap of his submissions of March 12, 2019.

1. Mr. Gupta has resumed his submissions in the #PadmanabhaswamyTemple case. Mr. Gupta is taking the Court through the orders passed by the Supreme Court in matter. 2. Mr. @jsaideepak drew attention to the orders passed by the Court on April 27,2018 and November 14,2018 wherein he had appeared on behalf of intervenors to highlight the damage to heritage structures in the #PadmanabhaswamyTemple during the restoration work.

1. Here are the updates of the hearing of February 14, 2019 in the #PadmanabhaswamyTemple case. 2. Mr. Jaideep Gupta resumed submissions on behalf of the State Government of Kerala. He submitted that the scope of endowment/dedication made by Raja Marthanda Varma in 1750 to Lord Padmanabhaswamy did not satisfy the requirements of Shebaitship under the law.

1. Here are the updates in yesterday's hearing in the #PadmanabhaswamyTemple case 2. Mr. @jsaideepak resumed his arguments by submitting that he would slot the remainder of his submissions into 3 baskets- limits imposed by judgments of SC on State interference with Temple Administration, denominational status of Padmanabhaswamy Temple & law on rights of Deity.

1. Hearing in the Review Petitions in the #Sabarimala Temple case has commenced 2. Mr. K. Parasaran has commenced submissions on behalf of the Nair Service Society. Mr. Parasaran submits that the majority is liable to be reviewed for failing to consider critical factual and legal submissions.

1. Here are the updates for todays hearing in the #Padmanabhaswamytemple case. Mr. @jsaideepak commenced arguments by placing on record an additional compilation of documents on history of the temple and legislative history of the TCHRI act of 1950. 2. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, counsel for the state govt of Kerala, opposed the submission of additional documents on the ground that new material is being placed on record in intervention applications which are yet to be allowed

1. Arguments in the #PadmanabhaswamyTemple case resumed before Justices U U Lalit and Indu Malhotra 2. Mr. Krishnan Venugopal is reading out portions from the impugned judgement of the Kerala High Court

1. The #PadmanabhaswamyTemple case was taken up by Justices U U Lalit and Indu Malhotra today for final hearing. The Bench has positively indicated that final arguments will commence today at the end of the board. 2. The Counsel for the State Government of Kerala and other Respondents wanted the issue of Kallara B (Vault B) of the Temple to be resolved before the commencement of final arguments.

Counsel for the two female petitioners, Ms. Indira Jaising, seeks round the clock police protection for them. Counsel for the State Govt of Kerala, Mr. Vijay Hansaria, submits that they are already providing round the clock protection to the Petitioners. The Hon'ble CJI directs that the Petitioners shall continue to get round the clock protection. The Hon'ble CJI rejects all other prayers made on behalf of the Petitioners and also rejected the prayer to tag the Petition with the pending review petitions.