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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has asked the State authorities to analyse probe and different materials and marque indispensable connection for conducting water probe connected Kumari Kandam.
The tribunal was proceeding the nationalist involvement litigation petition filed successful 2020 by Narayanmoorthy who sought a absorption to the Centre and the State governments to behaviour an ‘Underwater Archaeological Exploration’ to find Kumari Kandam mentioned successful the Tamil Classics.
It was erstwhile located to the southbound of Kanniyakumari territory and submerged successful the Indian water owed to earthy calamities and emergence of the oversea level. An Underwater Archaeological Exploration volition pb to cognize much astir the past civilization and Tamil culture, helium said.
Earlier, the tribunal had appointed Tamil researcher Orissa Balu alias S. Subramani arsenic the Amicus Curiae to assistance the court. The Amicus Curiae successful his study submitted successful 2020 referred to Kumari Kandam and Lemuria which were mentioned successful past Tamil literature.
The State submitted that since the projected probe had to beryllium conducted successful the ocean, support from the Central authorities was required. The Archaeological Survey of India submitted that the Central authorities had truthful acold not received immoderate connection from the State authorities regarding the probe connected Kumari Kundam. If they received a proposal, it would beryllium considered and indispensable enactment would beryllium provided by the Central government, it was submitted.
A Division Bench of Justices G. Jayachandran and K.K. Ramakrishnan took enactment of the submissions made and the value of the subject. The tribunal asked the State authorities to analyse the study of the Amicus Curiae on with probe and different materials and marque indispensable connection for conducting the water probe connected Kumari Kandam. We anticipation that the State authorities volition instrumentality the inaugural and enactment positively successful this regard, the tribunal said and disposed of the petition.
