2021 Supreme(SC) 514
UDAY UMESH LALIT, S.RAVINDRA BHAT, BELA M.TRIVEDI
MARTHANDA VARMA (D) TH. LRS. – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF KERALA – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
For the Parties:R. Basant, T. G. Narayanan Nair, Manu Krishnan, V. Shyamohan, Surya Prakash, Jishnu M.L., Priyanka Prakash, G. Prakash, Pratap Venugopal, Surekha Raman, Akhil Abraham Roy, Vijay Valsan, M/s. K J John And Co, P. S. Sudheer, Anne Mathew, Bharat Sood, Shruti Jose, J. Sai Deepak, Suvidutt M.S., Dhanya C., Anu B., Vijayalakshmi Raju, Gautam Narayan, Venkita Subramoniam T.R., V. K. Sidharthan, Ramesh Babu M. R., Ranjan Kumar, M. P. Vinod, K. Rajeev, R. Sathish, Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, M. P. Devanath, K. R. Sasiprabhu, Sumit Attri, Liz Mathew, Abid Ali Beeran P, Ranbir Singh Yadav, A. Raghunath, Sajith. P, C. K. Sasi, V. Ramasubramanian, Sanand Ramakrishnan, Usha Nandini. V, Praveen Swarup, Manju Jetlley, Advocates
ORDER :
1. In Miscellaneous Application Nos.2280-2281 of 2020, two reports each of the Administrative and Advisory Committees of Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple dated 10.12.2020 and 31.8.2021 have been filed.
A) The Administrative Committee Report dated 10.12.2020 has stated:-
“I may report that presently, the Temple is facing financial crisis, resulting from the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. In compliance with the guidelines/health advisories of the Central and the State Governments, the entry of devotees to the Temple was prohibited during the period from 24.03.2020 to 25.08.2020. Anyhow, without any hindrance, the routine rituals and poojas were performed during the said period. There had been no flow of income to the Temple during the period of lockdown, but, had to spend huge amounts for meeting the expenditure for performing routine rituals, salary, wages, pension, family pension etc. and other recurring expenses. The amounts accrued till the declaration of lockdown have almost been drained out. From 26.08.2020, the entry of devotees was resumed with restrictions observing COVID protocol. However, as a result of the situation prevailing, the income of t
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