Justice Rajasekhar Mantha observed that it would be highly inappropriate for the police to mandate that the deity must travel without a chariot for approximately 300 meters during the journey. The same would negate, defeat and compromise the object and purpose of the Rath Yatra, he said.
“Over the decades and centuries, people of all the religious denominations have participated with joy and/or actively supported Rathyatra in this State. To restrict a Rathyatra, and to impose conditions therefor would amount to interference with a religious practice which has not happened in this State or any other part of the country, till date,” the order stated.
Source: Barandbench
