The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Commissioner has agreed, in principle, to give on lease, around six acres of land belonging to the Kothanda Ramaswamy Temple at Y. Othakadai in Madurai, for the expansion activities of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.
Appearing before Justices G. Jayachandran and K.K. Ramakrishnan on Thursday, Advocate General R. Shunmugasundaram, said, the HR&CE Commissioner had written to the High Court’s Registrar General (in-charge) M. Jothiraman on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, expressing the department’s consent to lease out the temple land.
The A-G said, the temple owned 6.51 acres of land exactly opposite to the main entrance of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court and another three acres near Y. Othakadai police station. The R-G had sent a proposal to the State government seeking assignment of the 6.51 acres alone. The HR&CE Commissioner considered the proposal and replied that six acres could be leased out for the purposes of constructing residential quarters for the court staff, a community hall, an auditorium and so on and the remaining of 51 cents would be required for administrative purposes of the HR&CE department.
