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Advocate General Birendra Saraf and Subramanian Swamy informed the bench that the pleadings were completed and the matter could be kept for a final hearing.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said it will hear the Public Interest Litigation filed by Former Rajya Sabha MP challenging vires of the Pandharpur Temples Act that allowed the Maharashtra government to take control over the administration of the temples.
The division bench of the high court comprising Chief Justice Devendra Upadhyaya and Justice Arif Doctor said it will list the PIL for final hearing on January 10 at 2:30 PM.
The former member of Rajya Sabha, Subramanian Swamy had filed a Public Interest Litigation before the Bombay High Court for freeing the temples of Lord Vithal and Lord Rukmini at Pandharpur from the government-controlled administration.
Swamy’s plea states that by taking control over the Pandharpur Temples the government is ousting the rights of Hindus to profess, practice, and propagate their religion, and to manage Hindu Religious Endowments and their own affairs in matters of religion.
On August 22, the high court had sought reply from the state government.
Additionally, it states that even though the Act was passed in 1973, the administration was vested with the previous priest and only after 2014, the government had taken over the administration of the temple.
On the previous hearing the high court allowed the intervention application filed by filed by Shree Vitthal Rukmini Temples Committee and said that they would be allowed to make submissions as it was a statutory committee under the act.
The high court will now hear the PIL on January 10.
Case title: Dr. Subramaniam Swamy v. State of Maharashtra
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