Cuttack: The Orissa High Court will be on Friday saying its assessment in the case of the Balu Balu Bazar Badu Cuttack committee compared to the State Government of the restrictions imposed at idol heights for this year’s Puja Durga.
Mrinamayee Murti Daberah (Idola Liat 2 inches) Dewi Durga at Binod Bihari-Balu Bazar is a tradition of more than 500 years from Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s visit, a Saint Bengali, for Cuttack and Idol Consecration in 1512.
In 1890, the business community Balu Bazar, along with residents of the locality, takes the responsibility of the Puja and turns it into a community or Sarbajanin Durga Puja.
The state government has limited the maximum height of the idol of Durga to 4FT for the Pujas community, by saying the decision was made to avoid the possibility of the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic.
However, Ramesh Chandra Behera, Secretary of the Puja Balu Balu Committee, on Tuesday submitted a request to find permission to raise this year’s idol height.
The petition was taken on Thursday.
The two-judge Bench Chairperson of Muralidhar and Justice BP Routray was directed at ordering at 2pm on Friday after hearing the argument from senior advocates of Acharya Pitambar, on behalf of the Puja Bazar Committee, and state advice, DK Mohanty.
Acharya believes that the height of Dewi Durga’s idol has nothing to do with the spread of Covid-19.
Therefore, there is no reason behind limiting for less than 4 feet.
“It is purely a problem of traditional religious practices.
When idol heights do not have a role in the spread of Covid-19, the imposition of restrictions by the interference of state government inappropriate for,” Acharya further argued.
The country of D K Mohanty, in its part, was conveyed that the maximum height of 4ft for Durga Idol was a limit throughout the state.
So, the Balu Bazar Committee cannot be treated as an exception.
Mohanty further clarified that HC had last year allowed the nine Puja Committees to resolve idols that were more than four feet considering that they had begun to make it.
However, notification of 30 restrictions on the height of FT has been released well in front of the creation of this year’s idol, he said.
Nine Puja Mandaps for whom HC has loosened 4ft high norms last year including those in Sikharpur (52), Nuabazar (52), College Square (49), Alisha Bazar (5), Manglabag (7), Manglabag (7)), Telenga Bazaar above (8), Fighing Bazar (8) and Kazi Bazar (5).