MAHA OPPOSES OPENING OF JAIN TRUSTS TO DISTRIBUTE ‘PIOUS FOOD’

A day after the Bombay High Court refused permission to a city mosque to open up for Ramzan prayers, the Maharashtra government opposed a petition by two Jain Trusts seeking permission for devotees to collect food from the trust’s premises during the nine-daylong Ayambil fast.

A division bench of Justice S.C. Gupte and

Justice Abhay Ahuja have deferred the hearing till Friday on two petitions filed by two Jain Trusts seeking an urgent relief by allowing devotees to take away “pious boiled cooked food” from the premises of the trust for nine days between April 19 and April 27.

The main prayer of the petitioners was to quash the state diktat and allow them and other 48 Jain Trusts to open their temples with SOPs in place.