A prominent disability right activist and a quadriplegic himself filed a second contempt petition in Orissa High Court following State government’s failure to provide wheel-chair bound devotees access to 12 th century Shree Jagannath Temple, Puri, despite the court twice ordering to do so.
Jitendra Biswal, who has been living with 100% locomotor disability since birth, has been trying to enter Jagannath Temple on wheel and have dignified darshan of deities. After his campaign and advocacy failed to yield any result, Mr. Biswal had moved Orissa High Court seeking access to the temple.
On February 28, 2022, Orissa HC Judge Justice Biswanath Rath directed State government make the temple disabled friendly within one month.
