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Hyderabad HC issues notices on KCR's temple offerings
Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday ordered notices to Telangana on a writ petition filed by activists challenging the offerings of gold ornaments to temples by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
Hyderabad: Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday ordered notices to Telangana on a write petition filed by activists challenging the offerings of gold ornaments to temples by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Shameem Akhter ordered notices on the petitions by Dalit activist Kancha Ilaiah and social activist G. Ramulu.
They contended that the offerings made to various temples at the expense of the Common Good Fund were unconstitutional. They pleaded that the money be recovered from the Chief Minister.
Advocate General K. Ramakrishna Reddy sought four weeks time for the government to file counter to the notices.
Last month, the Chief Minister along with his family members, ministers and officials had visited Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh and offered gold ornaments worth Rs 5.59 crore at the Sri Venkateshwara and Padmavati temples.
He also visited Veerabhadra Swamy temple in Mahbubabad district of Telangana and offered a golden moustache.
Last year, he had gifted a 12 kg gold crown worth Rs 3.5 crore to Bhadrakali temple in Warangal.
All these offerings to various gods and goddesses were made to fulfil the vow he had taken during the movement for separate Telangana state.
