The Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court on Thursday that the Vitthal and Rukmini temples in Solapur are open to people of all faiths and that the Pandharpur Temples Act of 1973, does not impair or curtail the rights of the devotees or pilgrims but was introduced in the interest of the general public. On August 21, a Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Arif S. Doctor directed the State government to file its reply to senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dr. Subramanian Swamy’s petition, which claimed that the government had taken over the administration of the town’s temples perpetually in an arbitrary manner. Reported the Hindu.

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