FORCE 1 GUARDING SERVICES PVT LTD REP BY ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR CAPT SHIBU ISSAC Vs. THE STATE OF TAMILNADU REP BY THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT HINDU RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTS DEPARTMENT & OTHERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS matter came to be posted on being specially ordered by the Hon'ble Chief Justice vide order dated 27.09.2011.

(2.) THE matter relates to outsourcing of security services of Arulmigu Subramaniya SwamyThirukoil at Tiruchendur.

(3.) TIRUCHENDUR , "beautiful city" was until 1860 the headquarters of the old Panchamahal taluk. In 1911 was again restored to the equivalent of its old position as the capital of the newly -formed taluk of Tiruchendur. On the sea front stands the famous temple dedicated to the divine founder of the place. The building is somewhat curiously arranged, the Utsavar, named Shanmugar, that is, the god whose idol is taken in procession, having a shrine with its full complement of mantapams separate from the shrine of the god Subramanya himself and facing an opposite direction. Within the last few years a handsome mantapam, carved in the traditional style, has been erected in front of the Shanmugar shrine. The original portion of the temple, containing the shrine of Subramanyaswami and his two Ammans, is cut out of the sand -stone rock; the cliff has been left as far as possible to form the circuit walls, pillars and reinforcements of stone being added to support the stone superstructure. At one point in the outer circuit, a shrine dedicated to Vishnu has been hollowed out of the rock itself. Wisely taking advantage of the cliff, the builders placed the great gopuram apart from the temple and have thus provided a striking mark for mils around both by land and sea. [See : Government Tirunelveli Gazetteer (1916), compiled by H.R.Pate, I.C.S, Republished by Manonmaniam Sundaranar University - (1993)].