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Only A Hindu Can Be Made Devaswom Commissioner, Rules Kerala High Court
Guruvayur Temple in Kerala (Pic: twitter)
The Kerala High Court has mandated that the Commissioner of the Travancore and Cochin Devaswom Boards will always be a Hindu, reports The Indian Express.
The directive was issued by a bench of Justices P R Ramachandra Menon and Devan Ramachandran, while disposing of a batch of petitions challenging the amendments to the Travancore-Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions Act 1950 (TCHRI Act), which enabled the appointment of a non-Hindu as the Commissioner of the Devaswom Boards.
The petition was filed by the BJP state president, PS Sreedharan Pillai. An amendment introduced by the communist government earlier stated that an additional secretary or joint secretary to the government could be appointed as the commissioner. However, the petitioner held that the two clauses opened up the possibility of a non-Hindu becoming Devaswom commissioner.
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