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In a special sitting, the Madras High Court recorded the submission of the Tamil Nadu police that no permission is required to conduct Ram Lalla Pran Pratishtha events,
Justice N Anand Venkatesh, based on the stand taken by the Tamil Nadu government and the Police, observed that Annadhanams, singing Bhajans and uttering Rama Nama were not per se prohibited.
India News: The BJP vs ruling DMK battle over live telecast of the Ayodhya Ram temple consecration in Tamil Nadu shrines reached the Supreme Court. The court asked the authorities to act in accordance with the law. The Madras High Court held that no permission was needed for related functions in private enclosures. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai witnessed the Ayodhya Sri Ram mandir Pran Pratishtha.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, while hearing a plea seeking quashing of an “oral order” dated January 20 banning live telecast of the consecration ceremony at Ayodhya in temples across Tamil Nadu, said no one is bound to abide with the oral orders.