India, Aug. 4 -- The Supreme Court on Monday asked why the Uttar Pradesh government was in a "tearing hurry" to announce the Shri Banke Bihar Ji Temple Trust Ordinance, 2025, for taking over the management of the temple of Mathura's Vrindavan.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi also expressed opposition to the "clandestine manner" in which the UP government secured permission from the apex court to use the temple funds for a corridor development project through an earlier judgment (from May 15). The administration filed an application in a civil dispute to get its permission, LiveLaw reported.

The top court proposed to recall the directions in the May 15 judgement which allowed the state government to use the temple's fu...