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Suzan St Maur : Welcome to Part Twenty-One of this popular series. This week, novelist and publisher Lucy McCarraher ... Welcome to Part Twenty-One of this popular series. This week, novelist and publisher Lucy McCarraher looks at how you should review the crucial Act Two of your story … probably the most important part of all, and the part in which the most exciting and/or critical action takes place. How To Write Fiction Without The Fuss: the crucial Act Two Blog post at How To Write Better :   Welcome to Part Twenty-One of this popular series. 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The ultimate approach for the cheap hats new era you'll be able to discover this afternoon. 5 minutes ago - Via Google+ - View - mukesh patel : yogesh saxena Shared privately  -  Yesterday 20:49 "HINDU TERRORISTS"  Very rightly said that this is... yogesh saxena Shared privately  -  Yesterday 20:49   "HINDU TERRORISTS"  Very rightly said that this is the time to forget petty small differences and all Hindus and Patriots must unite and give support to Shri Narendra Modi Ji to enable him to serve the Motherland and to rid it from the Looters and Robbers.  They must never forget and therefore should never forgive the people who called them  and should united work to give Motherland BHARAT a true son like Shri Narendra Modi to serve her as next Prime Minister. Let our detractors clearly understand that Shri Modi Ji is not after the glory of PM's chair but is driveen by a zeal to serve the Motherland and its people, who have been so shamelessly looted for so many years. It is extremely important that our actions do not remain in mere rhetoric but result in a massive (near 100%) Hindu Voter turnout to select the party (most likely BJP) which projects Shri Narendra Modi as future PM. It is also important that we support capable people like Dr. S Swami Ji, Gen VK Singh and lot of new dynamic leaders to help Modi Ji in his new and challenging assignment.  1. Full support should be given to Narendra Mody to become the PM in next Elections in 2014 or earlier.  2. Dr.Swamy, Gen.VK Singh, Kiran Bedi, Swami Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravishankar, Jayalalitha and Raj Thakre are the prominent leaders who are likely to give unstinted support for the move. VHP has already declared to support Mody as per Ashok Singhal's declaration.   Hindu Groups and leaders should forget their differences with Mody's leadership and fight unitedly to dislodge the totally corrupt Congress led UPA, which has siphoned off billions of $ to slush accounts abroad and brought the Country's finances to almost bankruptcy with the cost of living increasing by over 100% in past four years of misrule. Hindu traitors like Shinde or Chidmabaram call the shots  to denigrate Hindu-s by calling "Hindu Terrorism" which has been totally disproved by the detailed article by Gurumurthy yesterday in this group.   3. The Hindu intelligentsia should now unitedly prepare the election manifesto, without the Religious appeasements so that teh Country would progress in the lines of Gujarat led by Modi.   4. The manifesto should clearly target recovery of all temples occupied by invaders and converted to mosques, free all temples from Govt. controls and restore the same to the Hindu Trusts of the area with only one Govt. representative to monitor the working of the trust, and this principle should be extended to all religious bodies among Christians, Muslims or Sikhs.   5. The innovative thinking and ideas for the free development of India with importance to Hinduism to be restored to past pristine glory, might be invited from all over the World, perhaps through the groups and the final proposals should eb forwarded to BJP to be included in the manifesto. 1.     Most of the endowment trusts esp. in Southern States have been diverting the temple funds for meeting Govt. expenses like payment of salaries/pensions (Kerala State), for building Churches and conversions activities (Andhra under Samuel Reddy as CM) and for building Mosques and Madrassa-s in Karnataka (esp. under CM Krishna as CM) and this diversion of temple funds have been going on since decades.  2. Even the make shift temple of Ram in the Ayodhya site, the Chadav-s or temple income is taken away by the State through the Divl.Commissioner and there were reports that funds to run the daily poojas and salaries of priest were not forthcoming from the UP Govt.  3. In J&K, Vaishnoidevi and Amarnath temples rake in millions every season from devotees from different parts pof India esp. Gujarat, and as stated by former Cn Farooq Abdullah, all the "Chadav-s" are taken by Govt. for its expenses. The State Govt. does not even maintaing proper roads to reach these temples nor toilets and other facilities fro the pilgrims.  4. When Nehru introduced the Hindu Religious endowments Act, the purpose was to monitor the incomes and ensure that teh collections are utilised for the temple only with an administrator as a member of the trust.  However, in course of time the State Govt. found that temples were Kamadhenu-s giving milk in abundant quatities without feeding her and started misusing the funds for purposes other than Hindu temples or institutions the bazen act by the Chiefe Ministers diverting the funds for appeasement of Muslims and Christians.  5. There has been Court directives against this practice but as usual the Govts. do not follow the judgements. Why not someone file a contempt petition in the Courts against the Govt.?    SC curbs State bid to control temples  Pratap Patnaik, New Delhi: Deccan Herald, Aug 14, 2009  The Supreme Court on Friday directed that the Karnataka government may not take over the management of any temple in the State under a law enacted in 1997.  A Bench headed by Justice R V Raveendran stayed Section 25 of the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Act, 1997, that permitted the State Government to take over the management of temples. "Section 25 of the Act is stayed,'' the Bench said after the State Government failed to defend itself with reasoned arguments.  Appearing for Udupi and Dakshina Kannada Temples Management Association, senior advocate K K Venugopal and advocate Sharan Thakur sought direction restraining the State Government from taking over the management of temples. State Government advocate Sanjay Hegde said the Supreme Court had earlier stayed the Karnataka High Court ruling.  "If committees are constituted under the 1997 Act, the applicants will be put in irreparable injury and hardship,'' said a petition filed by the Sahasra Lingeswar temple and others.  2.     In September2006, a Karnataka High Court Division Bench comprising Justices Gururajan and C R Kumaraswamy struck down the entire Act as unconstitutional. The Bench stated it was arbitrary and violative of Articles 14, 25 and 26 of the Constitution. However, the Supreme Court stayed the High Court order on April 2, 2007, following a special leave petition (SLP) by the State Government.  The State Government's argument was two-fold: protecting the livelihood of 70,000 priests and managing hundreds of temples and trusts.  These issues were at the centre of a controversy between the temples and the state government ever since the Act came into being.  The State Government had submitted that a high-powered committee headed by Justice M Rama Jois had been formed to look into the grievances of the priests and other office bearers of the temples.  The priests and temple trusts challenged the Act in the High Court, claiming it was discriminatory and not uniformly applicable to all religious institutions, including mutts.  The State Government had issued notices to over 200 temples in North Karnataka, including the Banashankari temple in Badami, Veerabhadreshwara temple at Godachi in Raibagh taluk of Belgaumdistrict and the Hanuman temple in Haveri, informing them about the appointment of committees that would recommend taking over their management.  GOVT. CANNOT USE TEMPLE FUNDS FOR OTHER RELIGIONS  Government has no constitutional right to divide Hindu society arbitrarily and to compel Hindu temples to provide assistance to institutions of other religions- Judgment given by Honorable High Court (Source: A division bench comprising Justice R Gururajan and Justice C R Kumaraswamy struck down the Act stating that the legislation violated Articles 14, 25 and 26 of the Constitution which provided for right to equality, freedom of conscience and freedom of profession, practice and propagation of religion and also the freedom to manage the religious affairs. The order will come into effect prospectively.  The Karnataka High Court on Friday struck down the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowment Act, 1997 as unconstitutional pointing out that its provisions amounted to "dividing Hindu religion."  A division bench comprising Justice R Gururajan and Justice C R Kumaraswamy struck down the Act stating that the legislation violated Articles 14, 25 and 26 of the Constitution which provided for right to equality, freedom of conscience and freedom of profession, practice and propagation of religion and also the freedom to manage the religious affairs. The order will come into effect prospectively.  The bench also side aside an order of a single judge who had upheld the constitutional validity of the Act last year. Several trustees of the temples and archaks had challenged the order contending that the Act divided the Hindu community, besides denying the right guaranteed under the constitution to establish and manage religious institution.  The court, in its 176-page order, observed that keeping out Maths and denomination temples from the purview of the Act amounted to violation of Article 14 of the Constitution. "Religious denomination does not in any way stand on a different footing than other temples," the court observed and said the state has to justify its action of exclusion of Maths in the Act, which were earlier included in local Acts.  The court said the Act defined Hindu as not to include Sikh, Jain and Buddist contrary to constitutional provisions. "Hindu religion is already divided by way of castes and sub-castes. Now the state wants to divide Hindus by excluding Jains, Sikhs in terms of a statute", the court observed.  Regarding the provision in the Act, which makes it mandatory for a notified temple to contribute 5 per cent of its total annual income to the "Common Pool Fund", regulated by the Endowment Commissioner, the court said there cannot be compulsion only for Hindu temples to provide assistance to institutions of other religions. "Devotees of Hindu temples provide money for temple purposes and it cannot be spent for non-Hindu causes," the court observed. The court said the government could have a commission constituted for temple affairs and involve Hindu religious leaders, social reformers and other experts and thereafter proceed to pass a uniform law.  The government can also think of having different regulatory measures for temples, maths and Jain institutions depending on their religious beliefs within the provision of the Constitution. "We deem it proper to observe that the government would be doing a great service to Hindu society by eliminating all evil corrupt practices, if at all, prevailing in Hindu institutions. This would go a long way in Hindu temple reformation," the court observed.  Highlights Leaving Maths and 'denomination' temples out of the purview of the Act is violation of Article 14 pertaining to right to equality Act definition that 'Hindu' does not to include Sikh, Jain and Buddist contrary to Constitutional provisions. State cannot compel temples to provide assistance to institutions of other religions  Single judge order upholding the validity of the Act set aside  "There are 2,07,000 temples in Karnataka & the total income of these temples are Rs 72 crores per year. Only Rs. 6 crore is spent by government for temples, 50 crores for the madrasas and 10 crores for the churches, 6 crore for other activities. In a period of 5 years, 50,000 temples will be closed for the want of funds in just Karnataka alone."   -Sri Sri Ravishankar, 2005>>  SC notice to A.P. on petition challenging HR and CE Act  NEW DELHI, December 18, 2012 SC notice to A.P. on petition challenging HR and CE Act J. VENKATESAN  The Supreme Court has issued notice to the States of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and the Union Territory of Puducherry on a writ petition filed by Sri Dayananda Saraswati Swamiji, Sri Paramatmananda Saraswati Swamiji and Sri Vishweswaranand Giriraj Maharaj, challenging the Hindu Religious and Endowments Acts of the respective governments.  A Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra issued notice after hearing senior counsel C.S. Vaidyanathan and senior R. Venkataramani and counsel Bindu Nair and sought the response of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and the Union Territory of Puducherry governments.  The petitioners said they were aggrieved over the provisions of HR & CE Acts as they took away the internal autonomy of the religious institutions and denominations. They said even the conduct of religious rites and rituals are completely constricted and regulated by the Executive Officers and by the Trustees appointed by the Government, in violation of the rights guaranteed to the people who practise and profess the religion and of the religious denominations under Article 14,15 (1), 19(1)(g) 21, 25 and 26 of the Constitution. The proposed expenditures and budgets for conducting religious rituals have to be considered upfront by the authorities of the Department and the Government and only after meeting with their approvals can money be expended for such rituals. The temples are thus  virtually treated as the personal fiefdom of political masters.  There is no rationale or justice for the government to discriminate and arbitrarily fetter and restrict the temples internal autonomy in management and administration, which cannot be dubbed as secular in character, more so when there is no aid or contribution or grant from the Government.  They pointed out that the constitutional mandate of hands-off from the religious institutions was totally breached so far as the Hindu Temples and Charitable Institutions were concerned. If the Government can wield its power to appoint or remove the Trustees and compel them to obey all orders of the Government or its servants on pain of prosecution and dismissal, and in devious ways can remove the Trustees and replace them by its nominees and the denominations or communities have no lot or part in the choice of Trustees or voice in the management of the institution, it is plain that Articles 25 and 26 are rendered nugatory and of no real effect whatever for Hindus of this country.  They sought a declaration that the offending provisions were unconstitutional.  Laws take away autonomy of religious institutions  Petitioners says provisions are unconstitutional  http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/sc-notice-to-ap-on-petition-challenging-hr-and-ce-act/article4211676.ece  Endowments Departments in different states take as much as 75 percent of Temple funds and use them at their will. No accountability, no transparency and no verification.  They have the authority to suppress and subdue Hindus who question their authority. Many politicians who happened to be Hindus have become so selfish they can mortgage their culture and their country for fame, name, power and money. They can deny any thing and get away with it. Even the Courts cannot be effective. Secular government would not enforce any law that would ameliorate the Temples and the salaries for the Priests. It is shame and a disgrace on the human race itself, especially to Hindu community for its benign neglect.  Supreme Court and Priest Salaries     Most of the employees, who are classified as secular staff, of the Endowment Department are paid regular salaries. Unfortunately, majority of the priest who are classified as religious staff, are not paid commensurate with their responsibilities. Many of them are paid meagre salaries. They are not able to support their families. In some cases the salaries are not even paid on time. It is the duty of the government, Hindus and the society to treat the Priests happy and contented.     The case of salary issue to the priest went all the way to Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had directed the state government in 1997 to pay salaries to temple staff on par with those of the government employees.  However even after 13 years of Supreme Court directive State government failed to take appropriate steps develop pay scales and pay the equitable salaries to the priests.    Sri Kamal Kumar Swami  Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu  T R Ramesh 27 Jul 2011  It is a great irony that a secular Government should deeply embroil itself in the administration and running of Hindu temples andinstitutions in the guise of supervising the secular aspects of temple administration. This grotesque policy of the Government to supervise religious institutions applies only to Hindu Religious institutions.     Viselike grip on Religious Institutions  By its own account the HR & CE Dept administers (or rather mal-administers):   36,425 temples   56 Mutts   47 temples belonging to Mutts   1721 Specific endowments and 189 Trusts     This has been possible due to Tamil Nadu being ruled continuously by atheists and unscrupulous persons, a corrupt bureaucracy, adebased High Court and above all, stark apathy, indifference and ignorance among Hindus. In recent times, the covert and overt designs of Christian missionaries and agencies have added to the plight of Hindu temples.     Around 1840, the then British Government started giving up administration of temples. They asked some of the prominent mutts in Tamil Nadu to look after some of the important temples and endowments.     The Heads of Mutts who were happy to takeover the administration of these temples so that they are run as they ought to be run, were careful enough to get written documents or Muchalikas from the British Government, which assured them that they would not take back the temples from the Mutts.    Thus some very important temples came under the complete control and ownership of these Mutts and the Mutts ran them ably and efficiently.    The primary purposes of worship and utilization of funds meant for the upkeep of temples and conduct of rituals were never lost sight of by the Heads of Mutts or officers. While a few temples were thus brilliantly administered by the Mutts, thousands of other temples in the then Madras Presidency were handed over to the respective trustees with the then Government playing little or no role in supervising them.    In 1925, the Madras Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1923 (Act I of 1925) was passed by the local Legislature with the object of providing for better governance and administration of certain religious endowments. The Act divided temples into what are known as Excepted and Non-excepted temples. Immediately after the Act came into force, its validity was challenged on the ground that the Act was not validly passed. For this reason, the legislature enacted the Madras Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1926, Act II of 1927 repealing Act I of 1925.    This Act was amended from time to time. It is unnecessary to refer to the changes introduced later. Suffice it to say that the Act was amended by 1946 by as many as ten Acts I of 1928, V of 1929, IV of1930, XI of 1931, XI of 1934, XII Of 1935, XX of 1938, XXII of 1939, V of 1944 and X of 1946. A radical change was introduced, however, by Act XII of 1935. The Government was not satisfied with the powers of the Board then existing and they clothed the Board with an important and drastic power by introducing a new Chapter, Ch. VI-A, by which jurisdiction was given to the Board to notify a temple for reasons to be given by it.  Thus, it can be seen that even in the pre-independence era, the Board had systematically consolidated its powers to take over and administer temples. Of course, this despicable intervention by Government applied only to Hindu Institutions.    Hindu Religious Endowments Board  Shri Krupananda Vaariar had undertaken to build the Vadalur Ramalinga Swamis Sathya Gnana Sabha in the 1940s and had gone around Tamil Nadu collecting funds from devotees and spending such collection with great care. The Hindu Religious Board, of which one Chinnaiah Pillai was president, intervened in the selfless work of Shri Vaariar and tried his best to scuttle it. Thanks to the just intervention of the then Chief Minister of Madras State, Omandur Ramaswamy Reddiar, his evil designs fell flat.     Omandur Reddiar also intervened to stop the unjust takeover of Chidambaram Sabhanayagar Temple in 1947. But Chinnaiah Pillai and his cronies in the HRE Board were not to give up.  The 1951 Act  Notwithstanding the clear directions of the Madras Government in 1947 to drop notification proceedings and the clear direction of the Honble Madras High Court in 1939 that the Board cannot undertake notification process on frivolous grounds, the Board started the notification process of the Chidambaram Shri Sabhanayagar Temple in 1950 and the then Madras Government issued a Government Order (G.O.) Ms. 894, Rural Welfare Dept. dated 28-8-1951 published in the Fort St. George Gazette on 4-9-1951.     Meanwhile, India after gaining independence from British rule had become a Republic on 26 January 1950, with its Constitution guaranteeing certain fundamental rights to its citizens. Special religious and administrative rights were guaranteed to Religious Denominations or sections thereof.     The Board also tried to take over the famous Shri Guruvayurappan Temple in Guruvayur, Udupi Shri Krishna Temple under the management of Shri Shirur Mutt of Udupi and Shri Venkataramana Temple belonging to the sect of Gowd Saraswath Brahmins in Mulkipetta of South Kanara district.     All the above religious institutions challenged the takeover by the HRE Board. In the meantime, a new Hindu Religious Act was passed by the Madras Government, known as the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951. The Board was now replaced by the Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Department, headed by a Commissioner who was given vast powers under the Act.     The Government facing stiff opposition in the Kerala region against its order on Guruvayur temple, withdrew the order. Shri Lakshmindra Thirtha Swamiar of the Shirur Mutt, the Podu Dikshitars of Shri Sabhanayagar Temple and Devaraja Shenoy representing the community of Gowd Saraswat Brahmins in Mulkipetta filed Civil Miscellaneous and Writ petitions challenging the Government Orders.    Landmark Judgments  On 13 December 1951, a Division Bench of Honble Madras High Court presided by the Learned Judges Justice Satyanarayana Rao and Justice Rajagopalan passed two landmark judgments.     1952 I MLJ 481 " Devaraja Shenoy vs. State of Madras " quashing the Government order to takeover the administration of the Shri Venkataramana Temple in Mulkipetta.     - 1952 I MLJ 557 " Shri Lakshmindra Thirtha Swamiar of Shri Shirur Mutt vs. State of Madras quashing the Government order to takeover the administration of Shri Udupi Krishna Temple and Shri Sabhanayagar Temple in Chidambaram.     In the Shirur Mutt Case, many provisions of the new HR& CE Act of 1951 were held ultra vires of the Constitution. The Division Bench clearly defined a Religious Denomination, their rights - religious and administrative. It also explained how these rights were intermingled and could not be separated in the case of a Mathathipathi and since it was the same with the Podu Dikshitars of Chidambaram Temple, it equated them to Mathathipathis.    Equally important were the findings of the Division Bench that the attempt of the Board and the Commissioner HR & CE to takeover the temples were not only unconstitutional but bad on merits.     Appeals to Supreme Court  The Government of Madras filed three appeals against these two landmark verdicts. On 9 February 1954, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Honble Supreme Court dismissed the civil appeal 39/1953 after recording the statement of the Advocate General of the Madras Government that the G.O. passed to takeover the Chidambaram Shri Sabhanayagar Temple would be withdrawn. The Government sought no leave and none was granted.     Similarly the Governments Civil Appeal no.15/1953 filed against the verdict of Honble Madras Court in the Shri Venkataramana Temple Mulkipetta was also dismissed after the Government offered to withdraw the G.O. appointing the Executive Officer.  The Government of Madras contested only the Civil Appeal 38 of 1953, pertaining to the Shirur Mutt Case and even in that appeal did not contest on merits. The Advocate General argued only on constitutional grounds. This was clearly recorded in the Supreme Court judgment.     Thus, it is amply clear that the HR & CE Department and the Government never had any case right from the beginning on merits, and they simply wanted to takeover the administration of large and famous temples to pave way for the takeover of all other temples in the Presidency.     The 1954 Supreme Court judgment in the Shirur Mutt Case  The judgment of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the appeal related to the Shirur Mutt (AIR 1954 SC 282) and the judgment by another Constitution Bench in the Venkataramana Devaru vs. State of Mysore (1958 SCR 895) are landmark judgments that Courts in India are expected to follow regarding Article 26 of the Indian Constitution and Denomination rights.    The Honble Supreme Court agreed with the Honble Madras High Court that many of the sections of the 1951 HR & CE Act were ultra vires the Constitution. It also clearly observed that while the legislature could seek to regulate the administration, it must always leave the administration to the denomination. It struck down the sections of the 1951 Act which sought to appoint Executive Officers to religious institutions as arbitrary andultra vires the Constitution. The Advocate General of Madras agreed with the Court and said he could not defend those sections.    Major Fraud by the Madras Government in the 1959 Act  Left with no choice but to come up with an amended Act in light of the above judgments of the Madras High Court and Supreme Court of India, the Government of Madras passed a new Act known as the Hindu Religious &Charitable Endowments Act of 1959 (Act 22 of 1959).     In that amended Act, it committed serious frauds which till today continue unchallenged. To understand these frauds we need to know more about the 1954 Supreme Court judgment in the Shirur Mutt Case.     Under the 1951 Act, the HR & CE Dept. had powers under sections 56, 58(3)(b) and 63 to 68 to appoint an Executive Officer to religious institutions including Mutts. Of these, sections 56 and 63-68 were held ultra vires the Constitution of India and were struck down by the Honble Supreme Court in the above-mentioned judgment. The same judgment upheld Sec. 58(3)(b) as valid (this section was earlier struck down by the Division Bench of Madras High Court) since there were adequate appeal safeguards and since the Executive Officer so appointed could only be a servant of the Trustee and could not be empowered to act as the Trustee himself.     Any honest and law-abiding person would imagine that the Madras Government, in deference to the Supreme Court of India and to meet the ends of justice, would have deleted the two sets of sections struck down and retained the section upheld by the Honble Supreme Court.     What happened was exactly the opposite.     The Government of Madras introduced a new section [section 45] in the 1959 Act which was even more arbitrary and draconian than Sec. 56 of the 1951 Act. It also retained the Sections 63-68 in the new Act which now carried the numbers 71-76.     The only section relating to appointment of Executive Officer that was upheld by the Honble Supreme Court was not carried in the new Act. But this would not seem strange if we understand that the intention of the Government and the Department was that no appeal safeguards should be provided to the Trustees of Hindu Institutions against the Departments illegal and arbitrary orders. Sec. 58(3)(b) of the 1951 Act had earlier afforded such safeguards " it was therefore removed by the Government.  More intriguing is the fact that this rogue department continue to appoint Executive Officers under Sec. 64 of the 1959 Act (the equivalent of Sec. 58 in the 1951 Act) without any power to do so. For example, the Deputy Commissioner in 1963 modified the scheme for Shri Kamakshi Amman Temple of Kachipuram, which is under the ownership of the Kanchi Mutt. While proceeding to modify the scheme under Sec. 64 of the Act, the Deputy Commissioner appointed an Executive Officer and this is an illegal act.    These frauds show there were adequate number of scoundrels and scalawags in the HR & CE Department sixty years ago, and we all know the Dept. has no dearth of such people now.  Going against the dictum of the Hon’ble High Court and the Honble Supreme Court did not stop here. One classic example of the arrogance of the Government is the amendment they brought out soon after the Full Bench judgment in the Rajan Kattalai Case in the Supreme Court (1965 SCR (3) 17). In this case, to get over the quashing of the Extension of the Executive Officers appointment, the Government amended the HR & CE Act introducing Sec. 75-A which gave such extensions retrospective effect notwithstanding any judgments by any courts including the Supreme Court. This attempt to retain control over Rajan Kattalai of Tiruvarur Thiagarajaswami Devasthanam in utter contempt to the judgment of the Highest Court of the land in that case was thwarted by the Honble Madras High Court. The Hon’ble High Court of Madras, held:    by introducing Section 75-A the Legislature has simply directed the Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments and Executive Officer of Sri Thiagarajaswami Temple to disobey or disregard the decision of the highest court of the land in S.D.G. Pandara Sannadhi v. State of Madras (1965) 2 M.L.J. 167. The obvious purpose of Section 75-A extending the impugned notification is to nullify the effect of this decision of the Supreme Court. (emphasis added).    In view of this judgment of the Madras High Court, the Government could not succeed in retaining administration of Rajan Kattalai Endowment, but this and other illegal sections 75-B and 75-C are still part of the HR& CE Act, not only in utter disregard of the dictum of the Supreme Court of India, but also in violation of Article 31A(1)(b) of the Constitution.  What Hindus should know  HR& CE Dept. officials carry out of alot of illegal activities in temples and other religious institutions. Most of their orders replacing Trustees or interfering in temple matters are without jurisdiction or in abuse of it. The general impression of Hindu devotees is that these officials have the power under law to do such acts. Nothing can be farther from truth. Every Hindu Devotee should be aware of the following facts:     (1) HR&CE Dept. or Government cannot appoint Executive Officers to any religious institution without valid reasons and without following natural justice:  As per the Supreme Court judgment in the Velur Devasthanam Case 1965 SCR (2) 934, acase must be always made out for an appointment of an Executive Officer. Government or HR & CE Department or even Courts cannot appoint Executive Officers without strong justification. This is the position in the case of non-denominational temples. In case of denominational temples like Chidambaram Shri Sabhanayagar Temple, the HR & CEDept. has no rights at all, in view of the special status accorded to denominations by Article 26 of the Constitution and by Sec. 107 of the HR &CE Act.  Further, the Commissioner or the Department need to follow the principles of natural justice while seeking to appoint an Executive Officer and failing to do so would invalidate the appointment. This has been the dictum of a Division Bench of Honble Madras High Court in D. Nagarajan vs. Commissioner, HR & CE AIR 1971 Mad 295.  (2) General Policy or Better Management cannot be reasons for takeover of temple administration: HR&CE Dept. cannot appoint Executive Officer to any religious institution stating it is Government policy to appoint Executive Officers for most temples.  Better or efficient management too cannot be reasons for takeover of temples from the Trustees.  (3) Executive Officer can be given powers only to look after the properties of the temple. He cannot interfere in religious matters or other matters of administration: Even in cases where Courts have approved the appointment of Executive Officer due to presence of mismanagement in the religious institution, the Commissioner can give powers pertaining only to the properties of the temple or institution to the Executive Officer. No other powers, administrative or religious can be assigned to the Executive Officer.  (4) Executive Officers office premises should not be within the temple premises: As per rule 8 of the Temple Entry Authorization Act, 1947, the temple buildings and premises shall not be used for purposes not connected with or arising from the worship, usages and observations of such temples .  (5) Any notice issued by the HR & CE Dept. appointing Executive Officer should state the reasons for appointment and should provide reasonable opportunity to reply or refute the notice.  (6) Executive Officer or any other HR & CE official cannot introduce innovations concerning the time, place or mode of worship in the temple or stop or discontinue any religious practice followed in the temple.  (7) Executive Officer has no authority to fix archana or darshan charges: This may come as a surprise to many but it is only theTrustee or Trustees who can fix these charges and not the Executive Officer or any other official in the HR & CE. This is as per Sec. 57 of the HR& CE Act, 1959.  Frauds committed by HR & CE in appointing Executive Officers to Hindu Religious institutions  In 1970, a division bench of the Hon’ble High Court of Madras came down heavily on the practice of HR & CE in not following natural justice while appointing an Executive Officer for a temple. If one imagined that the Department would have corrected itself and adhered to the principles of natural justice after this judgment one could not be more wrong. To this day, the practice of the HR& CE is to begin by issuing an order appointing an Executive Officer to a religious institution. If the institution receiving the order does not seek any legal remedy, the Executive Officer takes over immediately. If the Trustees file a suit or writ against the arbitrary takeover attempt, HR&CE would state in the Court that this memorandum can be treated as a notice and the trustees can reply to it. Trustees and institutions naïve enough to fall for this stratagem would accept this in the Court and start replying to the HR & CE Dept to the notice . HR&CE Dept. would usually pass a final order appointing an Executive Officer while the purported enquiry is still on.  If the trustees file a case against this final order , HR&CE Depts stand in the Court would be that there is an alternate remedy available to the petitioners by way of review petition to the Government. Courts usually are inclined to tell the petitioners to avail this alternate remedy, which in reality is no remedy at all as the Government is known to uphold all the illegal and unethical orders of the HR&CE Dept.  There have been instances in recent times where HR&CE officials demanding bribes to cancel takeover proceedings were arrested. In 2009 a Joint Commissioner of HR & CE Dept was caught accepting bribes for this purpose.  Commissions and Omissions  HR& CE Dept. claims it is administering only the secular aspects of Temple Administration and ensuring that the moneys due to the institution are realized and used for the purposes for which the endowments were made. Lofty sounding, but if one were to analyse what really happens in the temples administered by this roguedepartment one would find corruption and looting not found even in traditionally corrupt Government departments.  Temple Properties  Temples and Mutts in Tamil Nadu own 500,000 acres of agricultural and other lands. The tenancy laws in Tamil Nadu and the non-functioning Revenue Courts make it almost impossible for landowners to realize any rent or revenue from the leased lands. The HR&CE Dept., which is hand in glove with the Government, takes no credible action to realize these rents or arrears of rents. The Dept. gave a shocking reply to a recent query under the RTI Act that it has no records of the ageing arrears or amount due to the temples. This admission alone is enough to boot out this rogue department from the temples.     Temples in Tamil Nadu also own about 22000 buildings and about 33,000 sites. These buildings and sites are leased out at values much below the market value. The corrupt HR & CE officials and Tamil Nadu Government officials and Ministers pocket huge sums for favouring leaseholders. These buildings are also leased out to non-Hindus especially Christian missionaries and charities which carry out their anti-Hindu activities from these places. This is against the intent and dictum of the people who had donated these places to the temples.  Huge corruption money flowing out of such transactions is the main reason Government does not want to give up its hold on Hindu Temples and institutions.Highly inflated project costs are another way by which HR& CE officials loot temple moneys. For example, Podu Dikshitars of Chidambaram had dismantled the Paniya Nayagam temple dedicated to Lord Subramanya, within the Chidambaram temple precincts, as the roof and pillars were bound to cave in due to loose soil in the basement. This was done as per advice of engineers and stapathis; a new construction plan drawn at a cost of Rs. 90 lakhs and work begun.  The Executive Officer after assuming office in the Chidambaram temple stopped the sponsors from continuing the work. He has now given a proposal for the same work at a cost of Rs. 10 crores!  Aluxury Toyota car was bought for Sri Maasaniamman Temple near Pollachi at a cost of Rs. 11.5 lakhs. The first question that comes to mind is why a luxury car is required for a temple. It has come out in newspapers and through RTI queries that this car was used for private purposes of the HR &CE Secretary in the Tamil Nadu government.It is also now known that the monthly petrol bills of this corrupt official were taken from Temple funds.  Funds accumulated in fixed deposits in the accounts of rich temples would suddenly be transferred for flood relief, tsunami or Chief Ministers relief fund. Funds were repeatedly taken from Tiruverkadu Mariamman temple to conduct free marriages by the Tamil Nadu government. This temple which had huge deposits of money became almost bankrupt.  Temple Jewels  Since the HR & CE stopped having external audit from 1985, it is almost impossible to gauge how many antique and valuable temple jewels have been looted. There is widespread belief that valuable diamonds and stones in jewels have been removed and replaced by ordinary stones in many temples. Missing Maragatha lingams worth thousands of crores have not been recovered. Jewels from 215 temples have been stolen and this rogue department does not even reveal the actual value of the jewels stolen. In many cases the loss of jewels is not known to the outside world at all.     On 22 December 2010, devotees discovered that about 156 globes made of gold and 108 globes made of silver, in the palanquins of the God and Goddess in the Perur Temple, were missing. 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When the Lord does this, share your testimony and give God all the glory. You are for signs and wonders from now on. Even your children will begin to testify of the wonders that God will be performing through them. In a meeting of apostles that was held some years ago, someone made a particular remark. He said that here in Africa we go for signs whereas they in the developed countries go for wisdom, as if we were focusing on the wrong thing. I replied that we go for signs and our churches are overflowing with people, but they go for wisdom and their churches are empty. In Acts 13:6-12, while preaching to a governor, a sorcerer tried to disturb the message, Paul simply commanded him to be blind for a period. The sorcerer left their presence blind. When the governor saw this, he immediately accepted Jesus. Even today, there are many agents of darkness like the sorcerer who do everything to hinder the spread of the Gospel. 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