Court plea to end church litigations
The Hindu
Don’t force the court to implement Supreme Court judgement: Judge
The Kerala High Court on Thursday orally observed that if the entry of vicars or clergy or the office-bearers of the Manakarna Church appointed by the Catholicose under the 1934 constitution of the church is blocked, the court would have to step in.
Justice Devan Ramachandran appealed to the good conscience of the heads of the Orthodox and Jacobite factions to put an end to the long litigations resorted to by both the factions.
As speculation over the continuation of Minister for Scheduled Tribes Welfare B. Nagendra in the Cabinet persisted, with the demand for his resignation raised by the BJP in connection with the ₹94 crore scam at the Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation, his Cabinet colleagues came to his defence on Thursday.