The Madurai district administration clamped prohibitory orders in the temple town of Tirupparankundram late Wednesday evening amid protests by Hindu outfits to permit lighting of the Karthigai Deepam lamp at the ‘dheepathoon’ (pillar) atop the hill, close to a dargah, as directed by Justice G R Swaminathan of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.

High drama continued till 9 p.m. when armed with an order passed by the judge in a contempt of court case, the litigant and members of Hindu organisations, accompanied by CISF personnel from the High Court, arrived to go atop the hill to light the lamp. However, Madurai City Police Commissioner J. Loganathan, citing the law-and-order situation and the imposition of Section 163 of BNSS (Section 144 of Cr.P.C) in the Tirupparankundram zone by District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar, stopped the petitioners from entering the secured area.

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