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The Madras High Court-appointed amici curiae connected December 23, 2025 (Tuesday) inspected the projected tract for an 184-foot-tall statue of Lord Murugan astatine the Marudhamalai Subramaniaswamy Temple, nether the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department, successful the Boluvampatti Forest Range successful Coimbatore.
The inspection was carried retired successful the beingness of Special Government Pleader (Forests) T. Seenivasan and Special Government Pleader (HR&CE) N.R.R. Arun Natarajan, arsenic directed by the court.
A peculiar Division Bench of Justices N. Sathish Kumar and D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, constituted to perceive forest- and wildlife-related cases, had ordered the tract inspection and asked the amici curiae to taxable a study by January 23, 2026.
The temple medication has stated that the statue would beryllium installed connected 23 cents of onshore astatine the foothills, retired of the 4.96-acre interaction area, leaving the remaining 4.73 acres untouched. The tract is stated to person the capableness to accommodate up to 15,000 devotees astatine a time, with one-way postulation arrangements projected astir the statue.
The medication has besides projected to lease 7.98 acres of adjacent authorities poromboke onshore adjacent Bharathiar University, located astir 600 metres from the projected site, for a autobus terminal and parking facilities.
The amici curiae besides visited the Anuvavi Subramaniar Temple adjacent Periya Thadagam, wherever a enactment car task has been announced.
