Ensure Perambalur village temple car passes through streets with Scheduled Caste residents: Madras High Court
Justice P. Velmurugan issued the direction after the District Legal Service Authority (DLSA) secretary measured the width of the streets, on the direction of the court, and filed a report stating that they were wide enough for the temple car to pass through without any difficulty.
The judge quashed the Perambalur Revenue Divisional Officer's (RDO) June 3, 2025, peace committee proceedings, in which a few Scheduled Caste residents were made to sign an agreement stating that the temple car need not pass through their streets during this year's festival.
He allowed a writ petition filed by two Scheduled Caste residents, S. Vinoth Kumar and R. Manivannan, to quash the RDO's proceedings as illegal and unconstitutional on the ground that it promotes discriminatory practices and denies the right to worship on the basis of caste.
The judge also directed the Perambalur Deputy Superintendent of Police to deploy adequate number of police personnel in order to prevent law and order issues whenever the temple car is taken through the streets inhabited by the Scheduled Caste residents of the village.
Justice Velmurugan had on June 11, 2025, directed the DLSA secretary to inspect the streets and measure their width since the district administration had taken a stand that the temple car was 3.6 metres wide, and that it would be difficult to manoeuvre it through the five-metre-wide streets.
When the case was heard on Wednesday, a counsel for some of the Caste Hindus in the village raised objections to the inspection report filed by the DLSA. However, the judge rejected the objections and said the DLSA report clearly states that there is sufficient space for manoeuvring the temple car.
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