The record
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- The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Tamil Nadu government's appeal against a Madras High Court order permitting lamp lighting at the deepa stambha on the Tiruparankundram hill near Madurai, but refused to stay the High Court's directive.
- A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and Vipul M. Pancholi issued notice to the original petitioners, Rama Ravikumar and others, and deferred the case by tagging it with pending matters.
- The dispute concerns a January 6 Madurai bench ruling that lamp lighting must be allowed on the festival day, a decision upheld by a division bench which called the state's law-and-order fears a 'phantom' of its own creation.
- The matter matters because it involves a clash between the state government and the judiciary over a religious practice at a contested site.
What to watch next
- Next hearing of the appeal before the Supreme Court bench
- Whether the Supreme Court modifies or upholds the High Court's lamp lighting order
- Response of the original petitioners and the state to the notices issued
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