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2025 Supreme(Mad) 4513

BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT
J. NISHA BANU, S. SRIMATHY
M. Kannan @ Solai Kannan, S/o. R. Muthusamy – Appellant
Versus
District Collector, Madurai District, Madurai – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. N. Sundaresan.
For the Respondents:Mr. Veera Kathiravan, Addl. Advocate General Assisted by Mr. P. Thilak Kumar, Govt. Pleader, Mr. S. Manohar, Mr. Isaac Mohanlal, Senior Counsel For Mr. B. Arun, Mr. S. Ravi, Asst. Public Prosecutor, Mr. K. Govindarajan, D.S.G.I.

Table of Content
1. overview of the litigations related to thiruparankundram hill. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5)
2. court's observations and reasoning behind the decision. (Para 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33)
3. the arguments presented address the rights of various religious groups and the implications of the places of worship act. (Para 14 , 16 , 21)
4. conclusions and orders issued by the court. (Para 35 , 36 , 43 , 44)
5. final rulings reflect the court's intent to preserve historical religious practices and prevent disturbances to communal harmony. (Para 38)

ORDER :

[J. NISHA BANU, J.]

Since the issues involved in all these writ petitions are one and the same, they are disposed of by this common order.

2. Totally six writ petitions have been filed, out of which, two writ petitions, viz. W.P.(MD) Nos.2277 of 2025 & 15565 of 2023, are filed seeking for directions from the respondents concerned to prevent the 8th respondent/ Sikkandar Badhusha Dharga, rep. by its Jamath Members, Thiruparankundram, Madurai District, at any point of time, from performing any form of animal sacrifice in entire Thiruparankundram Hill and also from serving food prepared by animal sacrifi

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