BENGALURU: In order to claim the post of hereditary archak, the line of succession should be on the paternal side and not on the maternal side, the Karnataka high court has observed in a recent judgement .
Dismissing the petition filed by MS Ravi Dixit and his brother MS Venkatesh Dixit, Justice NS Sanjay Gowda has said that since the petitioners admit that it was their maternal grandfather who was performing the pooja, obviously they cannot claim that archakship was hereditary. "In fact, in the impugned order also, a finding has been recorded that the father-in-law of the petitioners’ father i.e., Nanjunda Dixit (maternal grandfather of the petitioners) was performing archakship in the temple" the judge further pointed out in his order.
