After a hearing that lasted more than an hour on Friday, a single bench of Justice Jitendra Kumar Sinha delivered its order in a packed courtroom.stayed the arrest of Shankaracharya and others till the announcement of the verdict.
Both have filed anticipatory bail pleas in the high court to avoid arrest after the Jhunsi police station in Prayagraj registered an FIR under the POCSO Act on the orders of the court.
He said the government had been given 40 days to reconsider its policies on cow protection.
He alleged that the government wants to divide Sanatan Dharma and incite conflict between different castes, adding that ''the new regulations are completely anti-Sanatan Dharma.''
The Shankaracharya is still sitting on a palanquin outside his camp on Triveni Marg at the Magh Mela.
Puri Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Nishchalanand Saraswati has launched a scathing attack on Central Government, accusing of abandoning the cause of cow protection.
BKTC has opposed the allegations labeled by the Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand that 228 kilograms of gold-plating was missing from the walls of Kedarnath shrine sanctum sanctorum.
He said first, it was a gold scam in Kedarnath Shrine and now, they want to build the temple in Delhi.
The initiative taken by the state government to revive the lost glory of Kumbh Mela in Triveni at Kalyani has been hailed by religious leaders, sadhus and monks.
Police officials said that Section 144 was in force and hence parikrama was not allowed.
