Madras High Court disposed of a petition filed for establishing a 'peacekeeping committee' at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, following incidents of violence that occurred after a 'beef fest' was organised on campus in 2017
The court said that the present case represented a classic case in which the petitioners were attempting to unlawfully remain in possession of the temple property without any legal authority.
Justice M Sundar and Justice M Nirmal Kumar's division bench referred to the Supreme Court's guiding principle which reads, "Wikipedia is based on a crowd-sourced user-generated editing model and therefore is not completely dependable in terms of academic veracity and can promote misleading information."
Madras High Court has said in a 2021 order, "Merely because one religious group is dominating in a particular locality, it cannot be a ground to prohibit celebrating religious festivals or taking processions of other religious groups through those roads."
Court also allowed the Hindu outfit, Indu Makkal Katchi- Tamizhagam (IMKT), to hold its State conference in the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu on January 29.