{"id":10550,"date":"2011-10-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/14\/high-court-upholds-temples-rights\/"},"modified":"2011-10-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T12:00:00","slug":"high-court-upholds-temples-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/14\/high-court-upholds-temples-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court Upholds Temples&#8217; Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/states\/tamil-nadu\/article2509904.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MADURAI, INDIA, October 4, 2011 (The Hindu): A Hindu temple cannot be compelled to engage the services of a security agency owned by non-Hindus, the Madras High Court has ruled. Ultimately, reforms in matters of religious administration, if any, must come from within, not dictated by the court.<\/p>\n<p>So stated Justice K. Chandru, dismissing a writ petition of a Christian-owned private security agency against the Subhramaniya Swamy Temple at Tiruchendur. He held that courts could not direct a temple management to engage the agency even if it provided only Hindu personnel. &#8220;Guarding a temple or a place of worship is a sensitive issue and ultimately it is for the temple to decide on such matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that Section 10 of the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act clearly states that all servants of a temple, from the Joint Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department to the last grade servants, including the security guards, must be Hindus.<\/p>\n<p>He affirmed that a temple is not a State institution which could be forced to engage contractors of other faiths and explained that the Joint Commissioner had only supervisory authority; it was the Board of Trustees&#8217; decision to engage a Hindu-owned security agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MADURAI, INDIA, October 4, 2011 (The Hindu): A Hindu temple cannot be compelled to engage the services of a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}