By Our Correspondent
CUTTACK/PURI: Odisha High Court on Wednesday rejected pleas filed to allow conduct of the Annual Jatra at Kendrapara and Bhatli in Bargarh district and hailed that no Yatra other than Puri, will be allowed.
The HC also rejected to intervene in the State Government’s decision to allow the car festival of Lord Jagannath only in Puri this year.
The Court has rejected four petitions filed by different applicants seeking permission to hold the Rath Jatra at Baladev Jew in Kendrapara, popularly known as Tulasi Khetra. Another petition filed to allow conduct of the Rath Jatra at Lord Jagannath Temple at Bhatli in Bargarh district was also rejected by the Court.
Petitioner’s Advocate Akhaya Kumar Pandey said challenging the decision of the Government for not to allow any other temple in Odisha to conduct the festival, some servitors and NGOs had moved the Orissa High Court.
