Writ petition in SC against HC order on Kalighat temple

The All India Legal Aid Forum on Monday filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging the order of the Calcutta High Court banning the entry of the visitors inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Kali Temple at Kalighat. On Friday,a Division Bench of the High Court headed by Chief Justice Jaynarayan Patel gave the order citing security reason. Only the two priest of the temple have been allowed to enter the sanctum sanctorum for performing pujas. Joydeep Mukherjee,general secretary of the forum said that the High Court cannot issue such ruling on religious places. Kalighat Kali Temple is one of the 51 Kali temples in India,which are considered as “Shakti Peeth”.