{"id":14929,"date":"2016-05-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/05\/02\/supreme-court-to-hear-freedom-to-temples-plea-on-july-13\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:00:00","slug":"supreme-court-to-hear-freedom-to-temples-plea-on-july-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/05\/02\/supreme-court-to-hear-freedom-to-temples-plea-on-july-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to Hear Freedom to Temples Plea on July 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Hyderabad\/sc-to-hear-freedom-to-temples-plea-on-july-13\/article8535012.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HYDERABAD, INDIA, April 29, 2016 (The Hindu): The final hearing on a long-pending writ petition in the Supreme Court filed by Swamy Dayananda Saraswathi to free temples from government control and challenging the Endowments Acts of three States will commence in July.<\/p>\n<p>The decision brought cheer to the Temple Protection Movement (TPM) active in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana which had filed the intervener petition against the A.P. Endowments Amendment Act 8 of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The issue gained momentum after the main writ petition (WP 476 of 2012) filed by Swamy Dayananda Saraswathi and others challenging the Constitutionality of endowments acts of three States &#8211; Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry was listed for final hearing in Supreme Court on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>[Under these acts, nearly all Hindu temples in India are under the management of government-appointed officials, but not minority institutions have not so been taken over, even though in theory the act would allow the government to take over a church or mosque.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, April 29, 2016 (The Hindu): The final hearing on a long-pending writ petition in the Supreme Court,&#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-14929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929","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=14929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}