The Tamil Nadu government on Friday (December 12, 2025) informed the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court that the deepam (lamp) was lit at the Uchipillaiyar temple mandapam in Thirupparankundram hill during Karthigai Deepam this year too as it was done for over the last 150 years.

Besides, it submitted there was no evidence to prove that the stone pillar — where a single judge directed the lamp to be lit this year — is called a deepathoon and the deepam was [ever] lit on it as a customary practice.

A Division Bench of Justices G. Jayachandran and K.K. Ramachandran commenced hearing appeals preferred against the order of Justice G.R. Swaminathan who had directed the Subramaniya Swamy temple management to light Karthigai Deepam at the deepathoon (pillar) besides the usual pl

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