MADURAI: The Madurai bench of Madras High Court on Thursday gave its nod for organising a hunger strike in a plea seeking public involvement at Tiruparankundram in Madurai on December 13.

The petition filed by R Prabhu from Tiruparankundram came up for hearing before Justice S Srimathy, and it stated that Karthigai Deepam is one of the important festivals of the Tiruparankundram temple.

The lighting of Deepam at the Deepathoon is one of the traditional customs of every Hindu. This was the practice till the year 1926, and the same was discontinued due to civil suits then. The subsequent orders issued by the principal seat of this court were also not respected by the HR&CE officials.

Earlier, several writ petitions seeking permission for lighting Deepam at Deepathoon were allowed by the

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