Karnataka govt to seek to vacate court stay against implementation of Chamundeshwari Act
Chamundeshwari Kshetra Development Authority Act of 2024. The High Court had temporarily stayed the implementation of the Act, after a member of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family — Pramoda Devi Wadiyar — challenged its legality.
Passed in February, the Act aims to provide for the constitution of an independent statutory authority to undertake the work of «development and maintenance» of 'Shree Chamundeshwari Kshethra'.
«We will try to vacate the High Court stay legally,» Siddaramaiah told reporters in Koppal district in response to a question on the High Court stay.
Home Minister G Parameshwara noted that authorities are formed for certain temples to ensure effective administration, as more money gets collected there, and also to provide good facilities to a large number of devotees who visit them.
«Money gets collected there, the government also gives money. To manage the administration, if an authority is there it will be better. So it was done in the case of Chamundi hills...They (royal family) have said it should not be done, the court will examine,» he told reporters here.
The interim stay was first granted on July 26 by Justice S R Krishna Kumar, who ordered that "....without prejudice to both the parties and by way of an interim arrangement, respondents are directed not to give effect to the impugned Act, till the next date of hearing."
The stay was then extended on August 1 by Justice Hemant Chandangoudar, and the case is scheduled to be heard again on August 22.
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