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Madras HC stays justice GR Swaminathan’s order permitting lamp lighting at Thiruparankundram hill

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Madurai: A division bench of the Madras High Court has imposed an interim stay on a single judge’s order that permitted individuals to light lamps atop the Thiruparankundram hill, while expressing strong displeasure over the prolonged litigation wasting valuable court time on what it termed a trivial matter. Fresh stay and judicial observations Against this backdrop, an appeal was filed challenging the single judge’s earlier order. The case came…
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Last year, on the occasion of the Karthigai Deepam festival, the Madras High Court's Madurai Bench, Single Judge G.R. Swaminathan had issued an order on December 1 last year that the lamp should be lit on the lamp post on the top of the hill in Thiruparankundram. However, on December 3 last year, which was the Karthigai Deepam festival, the Karthigai lamp was lit at the nearby Pillaiyar temple instead of being lit on the lamp post on the top of …

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NEWS9 LIVE broke the news in on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
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