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The president of a Supreme Court-appointed high-powered committee for the absorption of the Banke Bihari temple has prohibited climbing stairs oregon offering darshan astatine the Jagmohan hallway of the shrine aft non-compliance by the priests, officials said.
Jagmohan refers to the abstraction betwixt the sanctum sanctorum of the temple and the country wherever communal devotees get a glimpse of Banke Bihari.
According to section customs and traditions, devotees are not allowed to participate the area, wherever lone the priests connected work tin facilitate worship offered by them.
“From Saturday (November 22, 2025), introduction of immoderate visitant to the precocious near and close sides of the Jagmohan country volition beryllium prohibited,” an authoritative connection said.
The Supreme Court constituted the 12-member high-powered committee, headed by retired Allahabad High Court justice Ashok Kumar, to negociate the day-to-day affairs of the temple.
Mr. Kumar said, “The determination was taken aft the temple 'sevayats' (priests), contempt promising to halt the practice, failed to comply with the advice.”
Through a directive issued connected Friday (November 21, 2025), Mr. Kumar has wholly prohibited climbing stairs oregon offering darshan successful the Jagmohan area. Before that, Mr. Kumar, on with a committee subordinate and erstwhile territory justice Mukesh Kumar, conducted a tract inspection of the temple premises.
“After noting galore irregularities, the committee had instructed the acrophobic 'sevayats' to supply each imaginable assistance successful managing the assemblage of visitors,” Mr. Ashok Kumar said. However, “No affirmative practice was received from them,” helium said.
Mr. Ashok Kumar besides said that devotees were trying to person darshan by climbing the stairs connected some sides of the Jagmohan area, adjacent by hanging tiny children from the railings.
This, helium noted, not lone affected the dignity of 'Thakurji', but besides posed a beardown anticipation of an untoward incidental occurring successful the crowded area.
Mr. Ashok Kumar has instructed the enforcement manager of the temple to guarantee strict compliance with Friday's (November 21, 2025) bid and adjacent the passage/door starring from the Jagmohan to the Chandan Kothri.
