SC favours relocation of Dhari Devi temple
15 Aug 2013 4:59 AM IST
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the Centre’s plea that Dhari devi temple, likely to be submerged by the Shrinagar Hydro-Electric project constructed along Alaknanda river in Uttarakhand, should not be relocated keeping in mind religious feelings.
‘We are also not impressed by the argument that by accepting the suggestions of all the expert committees to raise the temple as such to a higher place, would wound the religious feelings of the devotes or violate the rights guaranteed under Article 25 of the Constitution’, the bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said.
‘Sacred rock on which the temple exits is still kept intact and only the height of the temple increased so that the temple would not be submerged in the water’, the bench further added.
‘We are also not impressed by the argument that by accepting the suggestions of all the expert committees to raise the temple as such to a higher place, would wound the religious feelings of the devotes or violate the rights guaranteed under Article 25 of the Constitution’, the bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said.
‘Sacred rock on which the temple exits is still kept intact and only the height of the temple increased so that the temple would not be submerged in the water’, the bench further added.
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