CJI Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan were hearing the challenge to the Karnataka HC order, which rejected the State's decision in March 2018 to allow only a Mujawar (Muslim Priest) to execute the rites at the Datta Peeta.
D Sureshbabu stated that Sai Baba preached both Islam and Hinduism and that the installation of his idol in a Hindu temple contradicted 8th-century Shaivite principles.
The Tamil Nadu government now gets to decide whether the Hindu pujari can take home the donation (dakshina) left by devotees on the puja thali. Such is the state of high-handedness of the government in a State that boasts of maximum number of Hindu temples.
He further highlighted that two temples have gone “missing” and the Devi Sannathi in Sri Ekambareswarar Temple has been demolished with houses built there. The encroachment extends to 23000 square feet of the temple land.
The miscreants broke a total of 14 idols with sharp weapons and uprooted the Shivalinga. The miscreants severed the heads of several idols, and ransacked the temple.
The Allahabad HC verdict dismissing the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee's plea was delivered by the single judge bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal. Justice Agarwal had reserved his order on February 15.
The notice also stated that the temple is classified as category C, a low-income religious establishment. As the matter gained traction, BJP state president B Y Vijayendra turned to social media to assert that the Congress-led government is "targeting Hindu religious sentiments".
On 3rd October PM Modi while addressing a rally in Telangana's Nizamabad remarked that the state government had captured the temples and that the temples were being looted through a conspiracy involving governments.