The Kerala High Court while hearing the petition today asked whether the land belongs to the government or the Devaswom board. The government has been given 10 days time to respond to this.
Pooja Prasanna, a journalist with Republic TV took to Twitter to assert that perhaps "putting those vessels on a burner will get us rains faster and for longer".
The victim Sushil Mondal was BJP supporter and was shouting the slogans of 'Jai Shri Ram' while preparing for a victory procession on the day of the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Modi