“Tamil Nadu police say state govt not anti-Hindu, but court docs reveal how only 4 out of 288 permissions were given for 22nd Jan events before courts got involved”, Opindia, January 30, 2024:

“On the 29th of January 2023, the Tamil Nadu Director General of Police filed a counter affidavit in the Supreme Court, responding to a petition which claimed that the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu had issued an oral order against granting permission to events surrounding Ram Lalla Pran Pratishtha. The Police DGP said that there had been a deliberate attempt to defame the Chief Minister and portray the government as ‘anti-Hindu’, which was patently false.

Interestingly, it is evident from the counter-affidavit filed by the Tamil Nadu police itself that before a court order passed by the Madras High Court in a separate petition, the Tamil Nadu administration had granted permission to only 4 of the 288 permissions applications they received.

In the short hearing on the 19th, the bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna granted an additional 15 days for the state of Tamil Nadu to file a separate counter affidavit, apart from the one filed by Tamil Nadu police…..”

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