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The Kerala High Court on Monday slammed the State authorities for not complying with its directive to take over the Kothamangalam church, its precincts, and all its movable properties and hand them over to the vicar of the Orthodox faction.
Justice P.B. Sureshkumar orally noticed that if the State authorities couldn’t implement its directive, it must direct the Centre to offer the forces underneath its management to implement the courtroom directive.
The courtroom additionally sought the response of the Union authorities on the potential for deployment of the Central forces for implementing the courtroom directive and adjourned the case to November 10 for additional listening to.
The courtroom made the oral observations when a contempt of courtroom petition filed by an Orthodox faction vicar towards the State authorities and the Ernakulam District Collector got here up for listening to.
During the listening to of the case, the courtroom orally noticed that the federal government was taking a one-sided stand. The State Attorney submitted that the Collector couldn’t go forward with the takeover of the church because the police power had been placed on election responsibility. Besides, the police needed to be deployed for Sabarimala responsibility as effectively. Moreover, it was a delicate concern. The authorities, subsequently, sought extra time to implement the directives. It additionally pleaded for appointment of an advocate commissioner within the matter.
The courtroom orally noticed that the federal government had sought extra time for implementing the directive final time, citing the COVID-19 state of affairs. The authorities couldn’t be allowed to stick with such a stand additional. The State authorities had then submitted that within the occasion of a forceful takeover of the church and its property, the general public, together with ladies and youngsters and elder folks, pushed by spiritual fervour would collect earlier than the Church, resulting in breach of bodily distancing norms and the tremendous unfold of the virus.
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