Justices G Jayachandran and KK Ramakrishnan, hearing a batch of appeals challenging the December 1 order of Justice GR Swaminathan, directing lighting of deepam at the stone pillar declined to stay the contempt proceedings before the single judge.
Debunking the claims of the stone pillar, abutting the dargah, atop the Thiruparankundram hillock, as a ‘deepathoon’ of the famed Murugan temple below, the Tamil Nadu Government on Friday told a Division Bench of Madras High Court that it was merely a survey pillar and there was no record of deepam being lit there.
When the government counsel sought postponement of the hearing till the appeal was disposed of, the Judge said he could wait till the next hearing but not after that.
