India, Jan. 6 -- The Madras High Court's Madurai Bench on Tuesday upheld a single judge's ruling permitting the lighting of a ceremonial lamp at the Thirupparankundram hill shrine on the occasion of Deepathoon.

A division bench comprising Justice G Jayachandran and Justice KK Ramakrishnan, while delivering the order, held that the single judge's ruling was not barred by res judicata, as the issue had not been decided in earlier cases, as per a report by Live Law.

For many years, the Thiruparankundram hill has been seen as a place where different faiths have lived in peace. The hill is home to the historic Subramaniya Swamy Temple, the Kasi Viswanathar Temple and the Sikkander Badusha Dargah, built long after the temples were established...