Chennai/New Delhi, Jan. 7 -- Tamil Nadu minister S Regupathy on Tuesday stoked a row while criticisng the Madras high court's Thiruparankundram verdict, which he said tantamounts to altering traditional customs.

Calling the verdict "legally incorrect", he said the Tamil Nadu government will appeal against the high court's ruling on Tuesday upholding a single bench order allowing the lighting of the Karthigai Deepam lamp.

"A dead body can be cremated only in a crematorium. Can it be cremated elsewhere? Do not change the existing customs and practices, Reghupathy told reporters. "Why attempt to create confusion in Tamil Nadu by delivering such a judgment?"

Meanwhile, Union minister Piyush Goyal accused the DMK government in Tamil Nadu of...