A deity recognised as a juristic person cannot be left remediless as it does not participate in polls: HC

A deity recognised arsenic a juristic idiosyncratic successful instrumentality cannot beryllium near remediless arsenic it does not enactment successful elections. The deity whitethorn not vote, but the Constitution speaks, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has said.

The tribunal made this reflection portion issuing directions to authorities to retrieve lands belonging to Balasubramanya Swamy Temple successful Vennaimalai successful Karur territory from encroachment. A Division Bench of Justices P. Velmurugan and B. Pugalendhi observed: “The mediocre deity has nary voting rights. On the different hand, the mighty encroachers person invaluable votes. In a antiauthoritarian polity electoral arithmetic sometimes appears to power administrative resolve. But law governance is not subordinate to electoral expediency.”