Plea against temple demolition dismissed

The Madras High Court has dismissed a plea seeking action against officials for demolishing a temple on the girivalam route in Tiruvannmalai.

The petitioner, Jayaraman of Chengam, had submitted that along the girivalam path he had constructed a Nagathamman temple near Dwaraga Munivar Temple 20 years ago.

The temple was visited by all devotees going through the girivalam path. But notwithstanding this, the Tiruvannamalai Tahsildar arrived with a posse of police officials razed the temple to the ground and threw away the idols.

He also alleged that since the place where the temple is located is worth several crores, the officials in a bid to usurp the lands had demolished the temple built by him.

However, Justice Pushpa Satyanarayana on recording the submission of the Government Pleader V Shanmuga Sundar that the petitioner while not even mentioning as to when the temple was demolished had approached the court without even lodging a police complaint and that the petitioner was heaping unwanted allegations against government officials, dismissed the petition.