HC sets aside order staying dissolution of Badri-Kedar committee

Dehradun | Thursday | 12th July, 2018

Summary:

The state government again dissolved the committee on June 8, 2017, by issuing a notification invoking a special clause. Besides managing the temples, the committee also operates three Sanskrit PG colleges in the state and also offers diploma in pharmacy through an institution. NAINITAL: The Uttarakhnad high court on Wednesday set aside the order of a single-judge bench dated September 5, 2017, that cancelled the dissolution of the Shri Badarinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee, the body responsible for management of the Badrinath and Kedarnath shrines. The office-bearers of the committee then approached the HC against the state government's decision. The HC on May 30, 2017, ordered the government to restore the committee..