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PIL filed against KCR’s offerings to deities
The High Court at Hyderabad has admitted a public interest litigation petition challenging the action of Telangana State government in making offerings to various deities, including Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam, by drawing funds from public exchequer. While admitting the petition moved by well-known social thinker Professor Kancha Ilaiah, the High Court directed the State government to file a co
Hyderabad: The High Court at Hyderabad has admitted a public interest litigation petition challenging the action of Telangana State government in making offerings to various deities, including Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam, by drawing funds from public exchequer. While admitting the petition moved by well-known social thinker Professor Kancha Ilaiah, the High Court directed the State government to file a counter affidavit.
Senior counsel A Satyaprasad, appearing for the petitioner, submitted to the bench that the State government had issued a G.O. MS No. 22 and 23 Revenue (Endowments) Department sanctioning the amounts to make offerings to various deities from the Common Good Fund created under Section 70 and 71 of AP Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act 1987.
He said this was illegal and against the provisions of the said Act and also ultra vires of the Constitution. He sought recovery of amounts spent in pursuance of these G.Os from the persons responsible. The bench sought to know whether all the offerings had already been made to which the counsel replied in the affirmative. When the bench sought a response from the Telangana Advocate General K Ramakrishna Reddy, he sought four weeks time to file a counter affidavit. The bench accordingly adjourned the matter by four weeks.
